Firmware update

[Kevin Gordon]

Thanks for that.  I will place into the bag of tricks!

Cheers

KG

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 16:30 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> > Ooops I think I sent this to the wrong thread before.  Sorry for any
> > inconvenience.
> >
> > I seem to remember that the signed builds would automatically update
> > the
> > firmware on machines when using the game-key-release update method,
> > assuming that one had the power cord plugged in.
> >
> > Using the current 852 build, the firmware on the XO 1.5 is not being
> > upgraded
> > from q3a48 to q3a50 (which is the recommended fw listed on the wiki).
> > Not a
> > big deal, as one can flash using the X-release boot method to the Ok
> > prompt, and then using
> > the USB stick where the .dot-rom file sits in the /boot directory.
> >
> > And, I dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but
> > I was
> > just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for
> > 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the
> > past, a
> > figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or
> > whether the fw in the pack is maybe still q3a48.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > KG
>
> I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering the install path to
> reflect where /boot really is on the filesystem while booted up. This
> has the advantage of being able to use rpm/yum to stage the upgrade of
> the firmware. Providing you have the power cable connected, once OFW
> looks in /boot it will look for bootfw.zip. I'm just putting the zip in
> the correct location to be found. I have a test re-roll of q3a50
> available from:
> http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware
>
> the diff:
> http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/path.diff
>
> and what I used for the rpm:
> http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/bootfw.diff
>
> If you have net access and would like to test, all on one line:
> rpm -Uvh
>
> http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware/bootfw-q3a50-2.unsigned.i586.rpm
>
>
> try it out if you like,
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
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