[solved] freezing DCON for insecure boot

Yuan Chao yuanchao at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 04:04:44 EDT 2008


On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

>  > The Forth command  "dcon-freeze" will freeze the screen immediately.
>  > Either can be executed from inside olpc.fth
Putting "dcon-freeze" in olpc.fth works great on my B4.

>  This is of secondary importance to me, but I still do not
>  understand why the Update.1 release candidate 703 fails to boot in
>  secure mode.  I have even re-downloaded the image and re-flashed it
>  a second time.
If your XOs are B4 or prior, I've asked similar questions to OLPC
support and they said this is normal. B4 doesn't have the "activate"
entry in mfg-data as I check which might be the cause?

>  Do I have to double check something in my mfg-data?  Both my laptops
>  are pre-MP.


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Best regards,
Yuan Chao



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