Re: Activation problems

2008-05-07 Thread Mitch Bradley
John Watlington wrote: > > > When I reboot (after activating), it reports that the lease in > nand:\security\lease.sig is expired. > Then it finds valid signatures for the OS and proceeds. > Can you get a developer key? If so, type: ok .clock ok more nand:\security\lease.sig ___

Re: Activation problems

2008-05-07 Thread Mitch Bradley
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to activate in >>> >> the lease.sig file to see if they're there... >> >> The activation leases in the lease.sig file

Re: Activation problems

2008-05-07 Thread Mitch Bradley
If the icons are flashing, the firmware is already out of the picture. John Watlington wrote: > > I have two laptops here in Peru that refuse to activate. > > I have generated leases for (increasingly) 7 days, 3000 days, > and 7999 days, and none work. I activated three other laptops > using the

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread Walter Bender
If you insert the key after the machine boots, then it shouldn't have been a problem having a /boot directory. A possible explanation of the inconsistent behavior could be when in the boot process you insert the key. -walter On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:07 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
I owe everyone a beer/coffee when I get back to 1CC for troubling you with my senility. wad On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:07 PM, John Watlington wrote: > RTFM. > > It looks like most of the problem was not deleting the boot > directory on the key. Why this worked for 3 of five laptops, > but not these

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
RTFM. It looks like most of the problem was not deleting the boot directory on the key. Why this worked for 3 of five laptops, but not these last two, I don't know... On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:02 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I reboot (after activating), it reports that the lease in > nand:\security\lease.sig is expired. > Then it finds valid signatures for the OS and proceeds. That's very interesting. Once you have a dev key, can you

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 28, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to activate in >>> the lease.sig file to see if they're the

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 28, 2008, at 2:37 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to >>> activate in >> the lease.sig file to see if they're there... >>> >> >> The activation leas

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to activate in > the lease.sig file to see if they're there... > > > > The activation leases in the lease.sig file seem fine. And I'm using > a collector key

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread Richard A. Smith
John Watlington wrote: >> They boot up and don't give any error messages. They just start >> flashing the SD, USB, and finally WiFi icons. When activating, >> they don't give any error message, they just say "Powering off in 10 >> seconds". If you hold the check key during boot it shows some

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
On Apr 28, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: > Are you using a pendrive with the leases to activate the laptops? Yes. > Or are you trying wireless? Which build are you using? I don't know what build is on the laptops, probably 656. > You can try to search the SN of the laptops you'r

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Are you using a pendrive with the leases to activate the laptops? Or are you trying wireless? Which build are you using? You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to activate in the lease.sig file to see if they're there... Emiliano On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM, John Watlington

Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread John Watlington
I have two laptops here in Peru that refuse to activate. I have generated leases for (increasingly) 7 days, 3000 days, and 7999 days, and none work. I activated three other laptops using the same key/activation request and they work fine. They boot up and don't give any error messages. They