olpc.fth

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 16:21:26 EST 2011


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Just a quick question is it possible to run commands that are available
> at OFW prompt inside the olpc.fth file? I'm looking at trying to run
> add-tag-from-file from within olpc.fth.

I used to think you could, but according to Reuben and Mitch... you
can't. By the time boot.fth gets executed, OFW has put the memory back
in readonly mode.

So the add-tag game should be done with a proper keyjector.

Impractical but safer.


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