Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 3:00 PM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: found lots of filesystem errors even when running tests from OS42 chrooted to the SD card. I use a permanent SD card on my XOs to store additional data and executables (including lots of Activities). I don't know if it is me, or the

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of significant corruption of the (ext2) filesystem on that card. Makes sense. Due to a problem

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 8:06 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of significant corruption of the (ext2)

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Have you directed OpenFirmware to write to this filesystem since it was created with mke2fs? I'm not sure of what you are thinking about. The only time I explicitly ask OFW to write anything is to the internal SD card, when I do 'fs-update' to install a new build. Other than that, if OFW

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Have you directed OpenFirmware to write to this filesystem since it was created with mke2fs? I'm not sure of what you are thinking about. The only time I explicitly ask OFW to write anything is to the internal SD card,

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck' several times this November on my XO-1.5's SD card -- because of

Re: SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel fixed this -- and the fix should be in the recent builds. Does it continue to happen with current builds? Current builds means it was fixed in kernel, right? Nope - in initrd -- look for changes in

SD card in XO-1.5 external slot

2009-11-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
found lots of filesystem errors even when running tests from OS42 chrooted to the SD card. I use a permanent SD card on my XOs to store additional data and executables (including lots of Activities). I don't know if it is me, or the hardware, or the software -- but I've had to run 'fsck'