[Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

[Dave Bauer]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at firmworks.com> wrote:

>
>> My XO Boots but gets stuck loading the initrd.
>>
>> OFW Q2E34
>>
>> Here is what I see on the screen
>>
>> Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments:
>> Boot device: /nandflash:\boot\vmlinuz0 Arguments: root=mtd0
>> rootfstype=jffs2
>> liveimg console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 boot_delay=3 fbcon=font:SUN12x22
>> Loading ramdisk image from nand:\boot\initrd0.img
>>
>> It stays there its been about 20 minutes now.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Try booting with the check button (game key above the power button) held
> down.
>

Thanks Mitch,

Actually that report is with the check button held down.


Dave

>
> If that fixes the problem, the issues is that the OS is not switching from
> "pretty boot" mode to active screen mode.
>
> You can disable pretty-boot by adding these lines to /boot/olpc.fth :
>
>  unfreeze visible
>
> The second line, just after the comment line, is a good place for them.
>
>


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Dave Bauer
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