Activation problems

[John Watlington]

RTFM.

It looks like most of the problem was not deleting the boot
directory on the key.  Why this worked for 3 of five laptops,
but not these last two, I don't know...

On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:02 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>>  When I reboot (after activating), it reports that the lease in
>> nand:\security\lease.sig is expired.
>>  Then it finds valid signatures for the OS and proceeds.
>
> That's very interesting.  Once you have a dev key, can you ask OFW
> what's actually in nand:\security\lease.sig?  Does it look reasonable?
>  It is writable?
>
> If you could also note the "mounting XYZ on /mnt options that are
> tried; the process should look like this:
>  * try /dev/mmcblk0p1 (partitioned SD card)
>  * /dev/mmcblk0 (unpartitioned SD card)
>  * /dev/sdX for X in ['a1','a','b1','b','c1','c','b1','b','a1','a']
> (we expect /dev/sda1 to work, so we try it again at the end in case
> the USB disk just took a while to be recognized)
>  * wireless on channels 1, 6, 11, 1, 6, 11
>
> If it doesn't make it all the way through this process, then what it
> likely happening is that it is successfully finding the lease and then
> failing to write it to NAND.  So knowing how far it gets through this
> is useful.
>  --scott
>
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