Upgrading firmware
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For the general public
Steps for Upgrading Firmware
G1G1 donors: You can upgrade to a newer stable release, which includes an upgrade to the XO's firmware. The latest stable release is 13.2.11 || 2020-01-29.
The following instructions are specifically for upgrades to new signed (official release) versions of the firmware distributed as .zip files. Development versions are provided as unsigned .rom files and need a developer key and a different upgrade process, as do firmware downgrades. Please refer to Manual Firmware Install for more details about the alternate methods.
- ALL steps must be followed exactly.
- Make sure your battery is charged.
- Plug up the XO on external power.
- If you lose power during a firmware upgrade you will brick the laptop.
Using a USB flash drive and another computer
- Right click and select "save as" on the following link:
- Create a folder called "boot" on the flash drive
- Copy the above .zip to the flash drive (do NOT unzip the file)
- Remove the flash drive
- Power off the XO, and ensure it is plugged in
- Insert the flash drive
- Power on the XO
- It should indicate that it is rewriting the firmware
Using only your XO
- Open the Terminal activity
or a console - Type the following (press the Enter key after each line):
su - wget http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2d14/bootfw.zip cp /home/olpc/bootfw.zip /versions/boot/current/boot/ reboot
- The laptop will then reboot twice more on its own. (Once to enable writing to the flash and then a 2nd time after its done updating.)
The XO will only upgrade the system firmware if it finds that its current version is earlier than what is in bootfw.zip