Looks like an Open Firmware regression. This works if I use laptop firmware q2e14 instead of q2e18.
Thanks ! wad On Oct 25, 2008, at 3:14 AM, John Watlington wrote: > Trying to installing either the gnome or awesome JFFS2 versions from > an SD card formatted as ext2. > > Using laptop firmware q2e18, on two different machines, this fails > with: > <....>:75: error writing to NAND Flash > after writing 40 blocks. That should be 0x40, not 40 decimal. > What is going on ? > > wad > > On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Andres Salomon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've prepared a new release of DebXO. This has a number of new >> features and desktops. >> >> NEW FEATURES: >> >> - The JFFS2 images now have partition support. While this shaves a >> number of seconds off of the boot time, we can take better >> advantage of >> it in the future (doing things like using UBIFS). JFFS2 is well past >> its prime; moving away from it will help performance a lot. >> >> - EXT3 images have been added. This allows for booting off of USB >> and/or SD. Note that the image size I chose is 2GB, so you'll need a >> USB stick or SD card of at least that size. >> >> - The kernel is now almost completely modular, and includes every >> module under the sun. For those of you with random USB hardware that >> wanted to use it with DebXO.. if it's in 2.6.25, it should work with >> DebXO. >> >> - New desktops! DebXO 0.1 only had a Gnome desktop; this release >> includes KDE, LXDE, Sugar, Awesome and Gnome desktops. I personally >> run (and work on) the Gnome desktop. Holger Levsen is to thank >> for the >> Sugar and Awesome desktops. James Cameron did the work for the >> KDE and >> LXDE desktops. A huge thanks to both of them! >> >> As far as bootup times, nand is still pretty absymal (due to jffs2); >> however, SD booting takes 75 seconds from OFW to fully usable X. >> >> >> INSTALLATION ONTO NAND FLASH: >> >> The release can be found here (note that the URL has changed): >> >> http://lunge.mit.edu/~dilinger/debxo-0.2/images/ >> >> To install onto the XO's flash, download the debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.dat >> and debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img to a USB or SD stick (where $DESKTOP is >> one of the various desktops - gnome, kde, lxde, sugar, or awesome). >> Boot into OFW (make sure your XO is unlocked!), and run >> >> update-nand disk:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img >> >> or >> >> update-nand sd:\debxo-$DESKTOP.jffs2.img >> >> (depending upon whether you downloaded to an SD or USB disk). If >> your >> SD or USB device is using a windows filesystem, you can figure out >> the >> name of the image by running >> >> dir disk:\ >> >> If update-nand spits out any errors, make sure you're running an >> appropriately up-to-date version of OFW. The q2d* series do not >> support update-nand, and versions q2e18 and q2e19 are known to be >> buggy >> with partitions. Firmware and instructions for upgrading >> can be found here: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware >> >> >> INSTALLATION ONTO SD/USB: >> >> To install onto an SD or USB device, download the >> debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz file, and run >> >> zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/mmcblk0 >> >> or >> >> zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz > /dev/sdX >> >> (depending upon whether you're writing to an SD or USB disk). Note >> that this will overwrite any data that is on the SD or USB disk. >> >> >> USAGE: >> >> By default, a user 'olpc' is created (with no password, and sudo >> access). Some desktops automatically start a display manager and log >> you in; some do not. The root password is disabled by default. This >> is a stock Debian Lenny system with only a few modifications, so >> it can >> obviously be tailored. >> >> >> HACKING: >> >> xodist is the name of the collection of scripts that are used to >> produce DebXO. The git repository can be downloaded via: >> >> git clone git://lunge.mit.edu/git/xodist >> >> There's also a web interface to that: >> >> http://lunge.mit.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xodist;a=summary >> >> There's a TODO file in the repository, but really... just scratch >> whatever itch you happen to have. Patches are much appreciated. >> Additional desktops (XFCE, for example?), better handling of the >> default user/password, boot/runtime optimizations, suggestions for >> missing packages, etc.. >> >> >> CREDITS: >> >> Thanks to James Cameron and Holger Levsen for various >> patches/tweaks/fixes, and to the various people who tested and >> provided >> feedback. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
