On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: > The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older computers > at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still work > fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron. This is a very consistent pattern. I > have 8 sticks with SD cards and 6 have failed on older computers but all of > those 6 still work on the Dell mini inspiron. > > They start to boot, the xo icon appears and dots but not icons appear in the > circle. This screen hangs for a while and then exits to a black screen with > this message: > > Warning: cannot find root file system > > Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot > sequence > > bash: no job control in this shell > bash - 4.0# [...] > Let me know if you want more detail such as answers to all of the above > questions.
It'd be interesting to see if turning off pretty-boot in one of the stick's /boot/olpc.fth allowed you to see any other interesting messages. Martin
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