booting from ext2 formatted SD card

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:29 AM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to boot an XO from an SD card with an Ext2 filesystem?
>> This is an XO with a dev key. I've followed instructions from
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO but it sits at the OFW
>> prompt saying "Unrecognized program format"
>>
>> Any pointers would be great.
>
> did you disable security at the OFW prompt after getting the dev key?
>
> David Lang
>

Yes. I'm going to try a known image on FAT32 and make sure that works
before mucking around with Ext2...

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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