Re: clean installation of 643.
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:25 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Thank you, John, The autoinstaller is not working properly. This is a known problem, but given that the preferred method of upgrade is now over the network, it has not been a priority. ... For me at least, the XO's wireless is still totally unreliable. So I'd appreciate if the download-to-usb upgrade process was still supported. Having just updated my XO last night via USB I'd suggest that it's useful too (olpc-upgrade wasn't even on my machine as far as I could see, so it wasn't really an option). BTW, work around for me was to do something like the following (keep in mind, I am *not* sure what the implications of doing this are, this is so the people who know can say egads, don't do that if I'm doing something wrong): Plug in the USB Key (MP3 player), hold X to get the firmware and then the backup done. When the machine starts showing the failed to boot unhappy-face, interrupt and go to the OFW prompt (ok). Manually boot from the USB key... boot u:\boot\OLPC.FTH which lets the upgrade continue (at least for me). That suggests it's probably just something to do with timing or similar issues that prevented the initial attempt to read the file from USB. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
On Dec 4, 2007 5:02 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is preferred method really over the network? I'm so ignorant about it, but what is the current theory of upgrading? Does the current scheme let people download a 300MB file over the wireless? (I haven't tried it by myself, but does T-Mobile connection stable enough to let them do it generally?) olpc-update is incremental. The total amount of transferred data is rather small. For me at least, the XO's wireless is still totally unreliable. So I'd appreciate if the download-to-usb upgrade process was still supported. Please update to the latest joyride or ship.2 build. The new libertas firmware fixes a large number of unreliable network bugs in our testing. If you still have problems, please file a trac bug, as we're very interested in hunting these down. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
On Dec 4, 2007 8:23 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The USB process is supported, but the manual instructions do not. Use the Sugar-update.py script. Just fair warning: this entire process is highly deprecated. Even if you can get it to work for you now, there's no guarantee that it will continue to work. olpc-update is the supported method from upgrading from ship.2 or joyride builds; please file bugs if this doesn't work for you! --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
On Dec 4, 2007, at 16:10 , C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 8:23 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The USB process is supported, but the manual instructions do not. Use the Sugar-update.py script. Just fair warning: this entire process is highly deprecated. Even if you can get it to work for you now, there's no guarantee that it will continue to work. olpc-update is the supported method from upgrading from ship.2 or joyride builds; please file bugs if this doesn't work for you! Well, what process do you suggest to upgrade without a permanent broadband internet connection? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
On Dec 4, 2007 10:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, what process do you suggest to upgrade without a permanent broadband internet connection? olpc-update via USB: trac #3881. Not fully implemented yet, which is the only reason why the autoreinstallation script is not completely deprecated. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
The autoinstaller is not working properly. This is a known problem, but given that the preferred method of upgrade is now over the network, it has not been a priority. To install the firmware from a USB stick using OFW: flash path_to_file where path_to_file is usually something like u:q2d05.rom You can use: dir u: to list the contents of the USB stick. To install a build from a USB stick using OFW: copy-nand path_to_file This will overwrite all data on the laptop. Make sure to backup anything you want to keep! wad On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: Alex, In the future, if you're only updating the ofw, you should just get to the ok prompt and type: ok flash path_to_file Yes, I know that, but it is not a good way to check if there is a bug or not^^; Also, after the firmware is upgraded, it reboots the machine, which would then lead the machine into trying to do an upgrade instead of a clean install if you don't hold the square key. That is probably why it created a backup and tried to restore from it. This means there may be some issues with the auto-reinstallation process, which should be looked into. Yes, that explains. Thank you! -- Yoshiki ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
clean installation of 643.
I tried to do clean install of 643 and it failed. Actually, it worked for the first time. Then, I realized that I forgot to put Q2D05 firmware on my USB memory. So I put the .rom file and tried the clean installation again. Then during the boot process I got: -- Restoring from backup tar: Short read Traceback (most recent call last): File /init, line 110, in module backup_or_restore() File /init, line 87, in backup_or_restore do_restore() File /init, line 77, in do_restore safe_sh(tar -xz -f + backup_file + -C /restore) File /initutil.py, line 26, in safe_sh raise RuntimeError(Command exited with non-zero exit status.) -- -- Yoshiki ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: clean installation of 643.
--- Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: I tried to do clean install of 643 and it failed. Actually, it worked for the first time. Then, I realized that I forgot to put Q2D05 firmware on my USB memory. So I put the .rom file and tried the clean installation again. Then during the boot process I got: -- Restoring from backup tar: Short read Traceback (most recent call last): File /init, line 110, in module backup_or_restore() File /init, line 87, in backup_or_restore do_restore() File /init, line 77, in do_restore safe_sh(tar -xz -f + backup_file + -C /restore) File /initutil.py, line 26, in safe_sh raise RuntimeError(Command exited with non-zero exit status.) -- -- Yoshiki --- end of quote --- In the future, if you're only updating the ofw, you should just get to the ok prompt and type: ok flash path_to_file Also, after the firmware is upgraded, it reboots the machine, which would then lead the machine into trying to do an upgrade instead of a clean install if you don't hold the square key. That is probably why it created a backup and tried to restore from it. This means there may be some issues with the auto-reinstallation process, which should be looked into. - AlexL ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
