Activation problems

[John Watlington]

I owe everyone a beer/coffee when I get back to 1CC
for troubling you with my senility.

wad

On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:07 PM, John Watlington wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -- 
>>  ( http://cscott.net/ )
>