"Could not activate this XO" error

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:54 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Thanks Mitch! I didn't know that. 
> 
> Do you think that is the best way to do the downgrade? I already
> changed the Autoreinstallation page to the notes I above. The possible
> problem at the end of the downgrade didn't sound good; and we are
> going to start using stable release numbers >1000, so if you do change
> it back, please keep that in mind. 

you rename the nandXXXX.xxx files to something like nand60000.img and
nand60000.crc, and change the build # to 60000 in olpc.fth.  OFW
compares the version it finds in olpc.fth to the version it sees in the
existing OS on the NAND, so regardless of what build # is in the
nandXXXX files, it'll overwrite the NAND if you make the olpc.fth
version higher than what's on the NAND.

Dan


> Thanks,
> Kim
> 
> On 7/22/07, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
>         Kim Quirk wrote:
>         > I don't recommend that your rename your nand to a higher
>         build number
>         > than it actually is just to avoid a downgrade. You may never
>         be able
>         > to catch up (or catch back down to the proper version). 
>         >
>         
>         Renaming the installation file does not change the version
>         number that
>         is actually stored in the NAND FLASH as a result of the
>         installation.
>         
> 
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