11233

Problem

The operating system does not run from an SD card in the external slot of an XO-1.

Proposed Solution

• select an SD card of at least 4GB; the faster the better, but it will be erased by the process below,
• select a USB drive of at least 1GB,
• download 32014o0.zip (585 MB) and expand the contents onto the USB drive,
• Shutdown the XO-1,
• insert the USB drive and the SD card into the XO-1 using the appropriate sockets,
• turn on the XO-1, and wait for the shell prompt:

root@box:~# _

• start the install:

fs-update 32014o0.zd

• the block number being written is displayed in hex, and starts at 0001, runs to 3772, and then resets to 0000,
• wait between eight and 25 minutes, depending on the SD card performance, for completed, please reboot. and the shell prompt will return, like this:

root@box:~# fs-update 32014o0.zd
installing, please standby
0001 ... 3772 0000
completed, please reboot
root@box:~# _

• remove the USB drive, power off, power on, wait for Sugar, verify version in My Settings, About my Computer.

Alternate Solution

• download as above,
• insert the USB drive and SD card into an XO-1.5, XO-1.75, or XO-4, but do not boot the laptop from the USB drive,
• instead, at the Ok prompt, type

devalias fsdisk ext:0
fs-update u:\32014o0.zd

• wait for the fs-update to complete,
• remove the USB drive, insert into an XO-1, power on, wait for Sugar, verify version in My Settings, About my Computer.

See Also

• <trac>11233</trac>,
• Announcement - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/038492.html
• Adding swap space on the SD card,
• 13.2.1
• Release notes/13.2.1