[olpc-help] XO won't boot

[Laurie DeMott]

I believe I have build 656 and I have not gotten any disk full error 
statements.  I tried the boot process below where you hold down the 
left game key to do diagnostics.  First Pong comes up (nice to know I 
can at least play Pong if nothing else) and it began going through 
the diagnostics.

At the end, it said, "Tests complete" and powered off.  When I tried 
booting up again, I still only got as far as the icon with one dot 
below it and then it freezes.

I then tried the boot with the check mark.  Some of the stuff goes by 
too quickly to read but it did stop for a while at 68.416793 JFFS2 
notice (618) check_mode_data: wrong data CRC in data mode at 
0x3e881090: read 0x3f8e529e, calculated 0x4d6f7239.

It finally then spit out a few lines about files and stopped with the 
following message:
JSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device.

So I'm guessing that, in fact, I did overfill it.  Is the only 
solution trying to boot it from the flash drive (which so far hasn't 
worked)?  I don't suppose there is a way to hack into the system and 
delete some files, is there?

Laurie

At 11:14 PM 2/26/2008, you wrote:

>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
> >
> >
>
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