[Trac #244] Need /boot/olpc-boot.fth files in builds, in addition to current .sh

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Thu Nov 2 10:50:39 EST 2006


Ivan Krstić wrote:
> C-blizz wrote:
>>  2. We still need grub for people booting off the Insyde BIOS.  Until we
>>  say "A-test is dead."
> 
> Why do we care about supporting people who are still running Insyde,
> despite being told ages ago to upgrade? We can send a warning to the
> devel-boards list about it, but that's as far as we should go. Anyone
> who upgrades to a new grubless build while still running Insyde is an
> idiot, and might as well go and download an earlier build to upgrade the
> BIOS.
> 

Because we're not dickheads and are willing to take reasonable efforts 
to give people the ability to continue to upgrade?

In all seriousness, we might be able to say that you have to upgrade 
more than once.  That is, pull this old image build (say build91?), 
upgrade to LB, then pull this really new image and update to OFW.  Not 
unreasonable, but we'll need to document the process.

--Chris



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