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Brightstar Upgrade
- Ensure you have both a power adapter and a battery plugged into the laptop.
- Insert the USB stick into the laptop while it is powered off.
- Press the Power button and then immediately hold all four game key buttons.
- When it says 'release the game keys', release all buttons.
- The laptop will give an indication of block by block writing to the NAND and should take a few minutes to complete.
- It will reboot when it is complete.
- Next, it will upgrade the open firmware.
- Then, it will reboot again.
- After a little while, it will boot up to a screen which says "Name."
- Hold down Alt, Ctrl, and 'mesh' (the third button along the top row that is a black disc with 8 small white dots).
- Hit return to get the login prompt. Type 'root', and hit return.
- Check the version by reading the label just above the login: OLPC Build 649 (match that against expected build number).
- Type 'poweroff' to shut down the laptop, package it for shipping.
Possible Errors
- Laptop didn't boot up to the screen saying "Name"
- If, instead of this, you see
- an XO with a disk, blinking usb key, followed by a blinking wireless symbol (the wireless one will come up after the usb key is done blinking)
- an XO with a question mark on it, and at the top of the page it says, "activation lease not found"
- the XO has shut itself down.
- This laptop has most likely not been pre-activated, so SET IT ASIDE
- If, instead of this, you see