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

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:09:25PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 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.

Yes, they do. I'll try to chase down the problem with buildrom+FC6 next
week. 

David's suggestion to use gcc34 is a good start.