[Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines
Paul Fox
pgf at laptop.org
Wed Oct 21 10:23:50 EDT 2009
mitch wrote:
> I don't like the idea of a second copy - "A man with 2 watches never
> knows what time it is".
but in this case, both watches would be right, and that would be
very interesting information indeed. :-)
(i.e., they should never be out of sync, and if they are, then it's
better to know that explicitly.)
paul
>
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > m
> >
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