[OLPC-devel] Testing LinuxBIOS installation release

[Christopher Blizzard]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 383248
>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 382816
>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 107510
>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 105236
>>> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 107036
>>
>> That's usually the kind of error you get when you have a bad hard 
>> drive/flash drive, or there's not enough power.
> The USB key works fine on an EPIA system running DSL Linux, and also 
> under Windows with the freeware ext2 fs driver.  So I think the drive 
> hardware is probably okay.
> 
> You would think that the powered hub would take care of the power issue.
> 
> Also, LinuxBIOS+payload doesn't seem to have any problems while loading 
> the kernel + initrd from the device.

OK, we'll have to see if we can reproduce and try to spend some time 
tracking it down.  Not good.

--Chris