booting from ext2 formatted SD card

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> 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
> --

Never mind. Just a bad olpc.fth file. Its getting late :-)

Sameer
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