[olpc-community-support] Boot into BIOS?
Richard A. Smith
richard at laptop.org
Mon Dec 24 12:33:46 EST 2007
Steve Holton wrote:
> Do you have your developer key?
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_Key
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 2:26 PM, Patch < Patch at totallyradfans.com
> <mailto:Patch at totallyradfans.com>> wrote:
>
>
> I'm going to attempt to install another OS using a USB thumb drive,
> how do I boot into the BIOS so I can change the boot order? I tried
> holding down the game keys, but it seems to be looking for specific
> files when I do that.
>
> Please tell me there's a way to get into the BIOS.
The Items you seek do not exist. There is no BIOS as you would think of
it on a PC. OpenFirmware and the XO is quite different from anything
you have worked with. (unless you are a Mac user)
A developer key will allow you to drop to an OpenFirmware prompt and
then you can boot from any device the XO has. Nand, USB or SD.
But you must have a a developer key, without a developer key you cannot
boot an unsigned OS.
See here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_Key
Also understand that there is a lot of custom stuff on the XO. Booting
a generic distro kernel will probably not have any of those
customizations. Not all of them are upstream yet.
I recommend you pull a copy of the olpc-2.6 kernel from dev.laptop.org
and then boot that or use some of the pre-build kernel .rpms at
http:// dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/master
--
Richard Smith <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child
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