no serial number ?

[Mitch Bradley]

tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Scott,
>
>  > 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?
>
> Mitch suggested that first, and it didn't work. Setting a SN tag plus
> a U# tag did work, 

According to my recall, it still did not work after the U# tag was set.  
The following line from IRC is from just after we got the U# thing set 
correctly:

<tridge>    hmm, ok, boot still tells me "could not activate this XO" 
followed by "Serial Number: SHF70600215"

We did not succeed until we booted without the initrd.

> but Mitch preferred not to provide public
> instructions on that, and suggested that I write up the boot script
> method instead.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
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