[OLPC-devel] Stall of LinuxBIOS included with OS image build 78

[Ronald G Minnich]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:15:26PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
>>Samat Jain wrote:
>>
>>>This ROM starts, but it does not automatically boot from my flash disk. It 
>>>puts me into bootmenu; selecting the USB disk option makes it drop to the 
>>>shell, where I can go to the flash disk and run olpc-boot.sh manually.
>>
>>That's fine, it's old.
>>
>>But your monitor works. That's interesting. Something has been broken 
>>between then and now.
>>
>>That rom was built on aug 8.
>>
>>So, something busted recently.
>>
>>I was building working roms as late as last week. So something has 
>>gotten busted.
> 
> 
> It has been identified that the problem comes from FC6 compiled
> buildrom. Suspicion is that some part of the toolchain is acting
> strange.
> 

ok, but we have preserved the ability of people to pull a buildrom which 
works, right? In other words, the only people who suffer this kind of 
thing should be developers. At this point, people who want a "just 
works" path have a way to do that, I hope.

ron