Activation problems

[Walter Bender]

If you insert the key after the machine boots, then it shouldn't have
been a problem having a /boot directory. A possible explanation of the
inconsistent behavior could be when in the boot process you insert the
key.

-walter

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:07 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> 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
>  >
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