Re: Is my NAND dead?

2008-06-24 Thread Richard A. Smith
Dov Grobgeld wrote: Thanks. I did a copy-nand and the system is up again, but it still doesn't explain why the system wouldn't boot. Is there any way of debugging that? What build and what firmware are you running? There are a few different bugs that can cause a boot failure. Debugging

Re: Is my NAND dead?

2008-06-23 Thread Richard A. Smith
Dov Grobgeld wrote: RESTORE Page Fault Ok Page Fault? What happened? OpenFirmware error. Rerunning the command gives about the same result. So has my OLPC turned into a brick? Is there any point in trying to reinstall the OS? Do you care about your data on the nand? If so then get

Re: Is my NAND dead?

2008-06-23 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Thanks. I did a copy-nand and the system is up again, but it still doesn't explain why the system wouldn't boot. Is there any way of debugging that? I'll use the save-nand as a backup mechanism once I have got all the activities installed. This sounds like a good way of creating images and

Is my NAND dead?

2008-06-22 Thread Dov Grobgeld
For the second time in about a month my OLPC refused to boot. Last time I did a clean reinstall and it has been up for a couple of weeks. But again it happened. I turned on the power and nada - it didn't boot. I figured out that the following failed: dir nand:\ It just timeouts until I hit