[olpc-help] XO won't boot

[Doug Jones]

Perhaps you have the dreaded "disk full" error?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ#How_do_I_recover_from_a_.22Disk_Full.22_error.3F

In the shipped build (650), if you fill up the disk completely, the 
laptop won't boot any more.

The developers have been talking about a way of preventing this problem, 
but I'm not sure if this has been implemented yet.

What happens if you do a verbose boot?  Do you see an error message 
going by about the disk being full?

(Various different ways of booting are described here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Startup_Diagnosis

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes

Try the check key while booting, and then try the rocker left key.)




Laurie DeMott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also posted this to the forum.  I'm hoping someone has some advice 
> for me.  I think I overtaxed my XO and now it won't boot. Here is 
> what I did -- I moved a 27MB pdf file from my SD card to the journal 
> and then tried to open it. It was taking a while to open and so, 
> becoming impatient, I also started Opera. Both Reader and Opera just 
> blinked and blinked, never opening, and I couldn't get the reboot 
> menu to come up so I finally had to push the power button to turn it 
> off. Now it won't boot -- I just get the music, the X with one dot 
> under it and it hangs there forever.
> 
> I tried removing the battery for awhile and restarting, but no dice. 
> I tried booting with the x on the gamepad and then with the o on the 
> gamepad but nothing changed either time. I tried copying the build to 
> a flashdrive and booting from that as explained in some other forum 
> threads but all I get is "Failure to boot" and the little sad face icon.
> 
> I will try using a couple of different flash drives since some people 
> seemed to have luck doing that but is there anything else I can try?
> 
> Laurie 
> 
>