[OLPC-devel] Re: Won't boot from unclean file system (trac 55)

[Jim Gettys]

On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 05:36 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> > 1) the Marvell wireless patch to LB does not appear to work, so the
> >Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS: the existing patch was known
> 
> Wireless testers.  Please send my a copy of your serial log for the bootup.
> 
> By not work does that mean its the same issue?   That it doesn't show
> up in the USB enumeration?
> 
> > >   2) If a flash key/disk running ext3 is not shutdown cleanly, LinuxBIOS
> > > won't boot the file system.  This means you have to take the key or disk
> > > and clean it on a different machine to reboot the machine. This is not a
> > > blocker, but is sure irritating.
> 
> > I used ext2 for /boot to avoid this. And ext3 on a flash device isn't a
> > hugely cunning plan anyway.
> 
> My experience is different.  I've been using the same ext3 key to drop
> my linubios.rom test images on and I routinely mout it when its dirty.
>  In fact I often hit the reset button rather than unmount.
> 
> The buildrom kernel config only contains ext2 not ext3 so regardless
> of what the key is its mounted as ext2
> 
> What I _have_ seen though are times when the key either just will not
> mount.  Unknown error -2 or maybe -6.  I'll note it next time it
> happens.  A reset button hit has always fixed this.  Same board same
> key.

Let's use the trac system folks, (until we have something better), to
capture this information.

I've just added this as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/55#comment:1
                                  - Jim

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Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child