new OLPC slackware 13.37 released (fwd)

[supat at supat.eu.org]

I never update for new OLPC firmware because it work for my old slackware 
12.2. So, I don't want to mess it up.

Yes, under OLPC it was recent kernel I found at OLPC: 2.6.36-rc2.

Kernel to boot to other pc is the latest slackware 13.37 say 2.6.37.xxx

Please let me know if the latest OLPC will not harm my OLPC 1.0 so that I 
can test it for you.

Regards,
supat

On Mon, 23 May 2011, James Cameron wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:59:58AM +0700, supat at supat.eu.org wrote:
>> 1. download OLPC_Slackware13.37 at
>> http://e-university.eu.org/OLPC/olpc_slak13.37.tar.bz2
>
> This boots only one kernel on an OLPC XO, 2.6.36-rc2.  Is it for XO-1 or
> XO-1.5?  On Tiny Core Linux and Ubuntu builds I use two kernels with
> olpc.fth code to detect hardware.
>
> Where's the source for your kernel?
>
> Your olpc.fth does not contain "visible", so I'm curious to know if
> you've tested it with recent firmware.  What firmware did you test with?
>
>> 2. mount /dev/sdb1 /usb (assume you have only 1 HD)
>> 3. tar xjvf olpc_slak13.37.tar.bz2  -C /
>
> This requires a filesystem like ext2 or ext3?
>
>> 4. boot OLPC using your new USB
>> 5. modify /etc/lilo.conf to fit your config
>> 6. lilo
>> 7. wait 5 minutes
>> 8. /etc/rc.d/rc.local (for unknown reason wlan0 will wake up after 5 minutes
>> wait)
>> 9. the same USB now can be bootted on any pc
>
> That's interesting.  You have a conventional PC kernel in /slak13 with
> an initrd /sdb1.gz, and the OLPC kernel in /boot/ ... a PC will use the
> MBR set up by lilo, and an OLPC will use /boot/olpc.fth.
>
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>