[Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Oct 21 05:47:03 EDT 2009


2009/10/21 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Maybe you don't have /boot mounted, or maybe there is a bug in the
>> build system now that we moved to a separate boot partition. We should
>> probably write the version on both partitions.
>
> Yep - /etc/olpc_build is probably a good location for a 2nd copy.
>
> Makes sense that we've put it in /boot first -- it's important to also
> have it in /boot because then you can read it from OFW if the /
> partition is in a FS format that OFW doesn't know about.

The other reason for it to stay there is that sugar reads it from /boot
(but Sugar could be modified)

Daniel



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