[sugar] Re: Please update to build 139

[Mitch Bradley]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:12 -0200, Gian Carlo Salvati wrote:
>   
>> Dear Jim Gettys,
>>
>> Not worked for me, I have ATest Board and the LinuxBios on ROM (not on 
>> SPI). I installed the Autoupdater on a USB pen drive and boot on USB.
>> The pen drive is readed, then the screen shutoff, then the Linux on NAND 
>> is loaded.
>>
>> What shoud I do?
>>     
>
> Likely you'll need to flash OFW manually.  You definitely need to update
> from LinuxBIOS to OpenFirmware.  We know that works because we tested it
> yesterday on an A-test :)  The instructions are likely buried somewhere
> in the wiki and I'll leave it to Richard Smith or Mitch Bradley to
> follow up on that...
>
> But the autoupdater stuff will only work when you have OpenFirmware, not
> LinuxBIOS.
>   
Actually, the autoupdater is supposed to work with LinuxBIOS too.  But 
you have to know how to make LinuxBIOS boot from a USB key.  The way to 
do that is to type the ESC key when you see the progress bar.  That will 
get you to a graphical menu.  Use the arrow keys to select the picture 
of a USB key, and it should boot the updater from the USB key.

The USB key will have to be formatted with an ext2 filesystem.  
LinuxBIOS does not include FAT support.

> Dan
>
>   
>>
>> Jim Gettys escreveu:
>>     
>>> This is a release candidate for BTest-2; we'd like to have every one us
>>> it as soon as possible to uncover any problems before the build occurs.
>>>
>>> See:
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image
>>>
>>> Note that the new camera application is there and should be working
>>> properly, and that many, many bugs have been fixed.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your help
>>>                                Best Regards,
>>>                                       - Jim Gettys
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
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