User:NeoAmsterdam/10.1.2/Bootable SD

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First Attempt

Failure

• Failure
  used cp -prv /versions/pristine/852/* /mnt/sd/. (it lit. takes HOURS to copy over); boot yields the following:

FATAL: Module scsi_wait_scan not found.
FATAL: Module scsi_wait_scan not found.
FATAL: Module scsi_wait_scan not found.
FATAL: Module scsi_wait_scan not found.
FATAL: Module scsi_wait_scan not found.


No root device found

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

Observations

• Noticed that OFW looks for root=LABEL=OLPCRoot or somesuch, and my SD was formatted mkfs.ext3 -v -L OLPC-SD (oops?).
  • Maybe editing /boot/olpc.fth with µemacs in OFW?
  • Manually specifying kernel arg/root dev. in OFW (until "in")?
• Penguin, not OLPC logo, shows in corner of screen... oopsie or intentional? [ shrugs shoulders ]

Post-Mortem

1. Boot into OFW (note: make sure to mention developer key required)
2. emacs sd:\boot\olpc.fth
   • BTW, didn't it occur to anyone that there isn't an F5/F6/F7/F8 key on an OLPC keyb? ^X^S won't work, and I can't tell which button/key I'm pressing!
3. Down near the end - look for the last screenful:

" nand"  dn-buf count  sindex 0>= if
   " root=/dev/mtdblock0 rootfstype=jffs2"
else
   " root=LABEL=OLPCRoot rootfstype=ext3"
then

1. Switching root=LABEL=OLPCRoot to root=LABEL=OLPC-SD (note: maybe tell people to mkfs.ext3 -v -L OLPCRoot instead of editing a posteriori w/ dev key)

Second Attempt

In progress

Hello children of the world!

dracut: Switching root
init: readahead-collector.event main process (870) terminated with status 1
                Welcome to Fedora OLPC Release 10 (based on Fedora 11)
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Starting udev: udevd-event[1113]: unknown format char 'g'

udevadm settle - timeout of 0 seconds reached, the event queue contains:

(list of devices)

Wait timeout. Will continue in the background.         [FAILED]

)-: looks like we're hanging here... coffee time :-P