[Dextrose] Laptop won't boot after upgrading to Dextrose

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 02:16 -0400, Becky Young wrote:
> Bernie,
> I was able to get a developer key for 6 of my XOs and I have updated 5
> of them to Dextrose 2.  (One of them I am still trying to unlock.
> Even though I got the developer key, it is not unlocking).  With 3 of
> the XOs the update went fine.  With 2 of them, one says "Boot Failed"
> shutting down in 30 seconds and the other says 10 seconds.  The one
> that says 30 sec shows that it updated the firmware to q2e45.  The
> other one was an older version of Sugar and doesn't show any
> information.  I had hoped that it was a firmware problem and I could
> get to the ok prompt and update the firmware, but now I don't know
> what to do.  Any suggestions?

Three hypothesis:

1) perhaps the firmware could not be updated because the laptop was not
connected to AC or the battery wasn't at least 20% charged when the
laptop booted.

2) perhaps the OS update is incomplete. Try repeating the update.

3) perhaps you did boot with the developer key to unlock the laptop, but
forgot to do "disable-security" (twice!). Now the laptop is still locked
and won't boot because the new OS is not signed by OLPC. Simply turn on
the laptop with the developer key on a USB stick and type
"disable-security".

I bet on (3).


> Sorry to keep pestering you.  You are too good at replying.

You're very welcome. I'm cc'ing the dextrose mailing-list to let other
developers and testers know about this issue.

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but be warned that 90% of the content is technical chatter between
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Thanks,

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