[IAEP] Need Help! Unable to Update XO-1s for Project in Rural Montana

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi... Thanks for the suggestions. I only did the updates on one of the machines. I wanted to make sure it worked before doing anything to the others ;-D I guess my first error was updating the firmware before fixing the date. Perhaps if I did that first it would work better. In fact the firmware might have taken care of itself.
I am in the midst of a tiling job in the kitchen of the house we have been working on for 12 summers, but later today will try this on one of them: (a) reset the clock, (b) update to an intermediate build, (c) update to the latest signed build. 
Then, on the one that is hanging up on boot... perhaps I should try going back too? But since I already took the firmware to Q2E46 this might cause a problem with installing a build with an earlier firmware. What do you folks think?
I should mention some of the things that happen when I try to update without doing anything special... it keeps looking for a mesh network (there is none) and complains about the date being wrong. I can understand the date problem, but haven't a clue why it suddenly thinks there should be a mesh network.
Any and all suggestions will be welcome.  Also, I lost the link to the place on irc where helpers lurk. I'd love it if someone could send it.
Thanks,Caryl

From: greenfeld at laptop.org
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:37:21 -0400
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need Help! Unable to Update XO-1s for Project in Rural Montana

The imaging process has checksums in it; for the most part if something bad happened during imaging it should have been detected.

It may be useful to hold down the checkmark game key while turning the power on a XO-1 and releasing it when instructed to see what text last appears before the XO ring got stuck.  This will hide the XO ring so it doesn't appear.



Note that the final circle of dots may sit around for a bit (if it wasn't still dancing).  I would give the XO at least 2-3 minutes to boot before stating something hung.

A USB2VGA adapter could cause an XO-1 to hang like this but no one said anything about one being attached.




On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:14 AM,  <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:


Maybe try to first go back to build 883, 11.3.1. To start from a known point, as it were.



If you've been able to flash the firmware and set the clock, I doubt there's a h/w issue.



Since it's happening on them all, it might just be a corrupt download or a bad USB stick.  I'd go back to a known working signed install stick then work forward using a freshly formatted USB with a retried d/l of the .img and fs.zip file, using the 4-game key install method.





KG

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