sorry for the week late reply, was busy w/ teacher training
Michael Stone wrote:
A much better strategy is
to reflash an XO, boot it off of external media (like a USB key), make
changes
to the NAND, then save-nand, thus avoiding the first-boot configuration
junk.
Let me make sure my linux-n00b
thanks Michael, this is really helpful
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:23 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Bryan,
Several weeks ago, I was asked to do reverse engineer an image created via
save-nand for another client and I discovered many unexpected differences
that had crept into the image as a
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:21:10PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
I would argue that the existence of first-boot configuration changes is
in itself a problem.
I thought a bit about this last night as I was falling asleep and I came
Other than the fact that the firmware security has to be left disabled
to use these commands, are there any technical drawbacks to using these
commands? I use them extensively and hope I am not causing some kind of
damage to our XO's
--
Bryan W. Berry
Systems Engineer
OLE Nepal,
Bryan Berry wrote:
Other than the fact that the firmware security has to be left disabled
to use these commands, are there any technical drawbacks to using these
commands? I use them extensively and hope I am not causing some kind of
damage to our XO's
save/copy-nand don't preserve user
No damage to the hardware, but we have seen a number of
weird problems in the past from this method of building an
image. It is not recommended.
wad
On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
Other than the fact that the firmware security has to be left disabled
to use these
Bryan,
Several weeks ago, I was asked to do reverse engineer an image created via
save-nand for another client and I discovered many unexpected differences
that had crept into the image as a result of lack of detailed knowledge of what
happens during the first boot and lack of established
James Cameron wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:23:59PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
A much better strategy is to reflash an XO, boot it off of external
media (like a USB key), make changes to the NAND, then save-nand, thus
avoiding the first-boot configuration junk.
I agree, and
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:21:10PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
I would argue that the existence of first-boot configuration changes is
in itself a problem.
I thought a bit about this last night as I was falling asleep and I came
to the realization that we would also do a better job of running
