[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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