no serial number ?

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Dec 6, 2007 12:02 AM,  <tridge at samba.org> wrote:
> Many thanks for everyones help. Mitch Bradly walked me through the
> process of fixing my B2.
>
> See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/No_serial_number

Um, I don't like those instructions at all.  Why not just set the
serial number in SPI flash, and set the 'ak' tag while you're at it?
If booting from ext3 confuses the activation code, that should be
filed as a trac bug, not hacked around like this.
 --scott

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