[olpc-community-support] non-booting journal

[Michael Stone]

Larry,

Your error report makes it sound like the Journal (and all other
activities are crashing on startup).

The simplest way we might be able to fix the problem is to reflash the
laptop to factory defaults. Instructions on how to do this can be found at 

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activated_Upgrade#Upgrade_the_Activated_Laptop

(Just ignore the remarks about activation leases - all the G1G1 laptops
are pre-activated.)

While I have some confidence that this operation will fix your laptop,
it is also likely to destroy any evidence remaining of what went wrong.

If you're feeling adventurous and you have a fast internet connection,
it might be worth trying to capture some logs and filesystem data before
reflashing.

Let us know how you'd like to proceed.

Michael


sOn Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:30:05PM -0500, Larry J. Maltin wrote:
> Am I the only one who has "lost" the journal?
> Without loading journal, the xo is unable to function.
> 
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> Larry Maltin                                       
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