On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:15 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What do people think of the straw man in that ticket? Should we
implement it?
My comments are in the ticket; let's move the discussion there, where it
belongs.
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade
This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image is on the
disk.
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote:
Finally, 8.2 will have better backup/restore functionality, so the
real solution then will be
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade
You can also boot from the ext2 build on an SD card as a recovery mechanism.
Finally, 8.2 will have better backup/restore functionality, so the
real solution then will be reflash+restore.
Please don't use the autoreinstallation key. It has past
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade
This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image is on the
disk.
We should continue to try very hard not to let the OS become
unbootable.
On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:53 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:28 AM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update#USB_upgrade
This will not work if the OS is not bootable and no alt-os image
is on the
disk.
We should
John,
We experienced quite a large number of 'software broken' laptops when
we first starting shipping both in Uruguay and in the G1G1 program. I
thought one of the things Ivan did in Uruguay was to help them reflash
their laptops when they couldn't boot due to journal corruption or
other software
Hi,
That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when
the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're
referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too.
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What do people think of the straw man
chris wrote:
Hi,
That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when
the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're
referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too.
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What
Chris,
That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when
the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're
referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too.
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What do people think of the
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Robert Myers wrote:
Chris,
That said, there's a separate bug in trac about X not starting when
the NAND flash is full. I'm not sure if that's what you're
referring to as not booting or not, but we should fix that, too.
Specifically,
C. Scott Ananian-3 wrote:
We should continue to try very hard not to let the OS become
unbootable. If it is unbootable, something Very Wrong should have
occurred and there's no guarantee that mount the filesystem and copy
off /home will work either. Using a dev key and a rescue disk is
Specifically, http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125.
What do people think of the straw man in that ticket? Should we
implement it?
My comments are in the ticket; let's move the discussion there, where it
belongs.
John
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On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Kim Quirk wrote:
thought one of the things Ivan did in Uruguay was to help them reflash
their laptops when they couldn't boot due to journal corruption
I gave them a patch that they were able to push out to the machines to
restore them to working order _without_
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