[Testing] 11.3.0 release candidate 3 (build 882) released

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:43 PM, rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> 
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:32 PM, James Cameron wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:21:20PM -0700, rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> If I download the file from http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q2e48/q2e48.rom
>>> and on an unlocked XO1 use the OFW command 
>>> flash u:\q2e48.rom
>>> 
>>> I get :
>>> 
>>> Reading u:\q2e48.rom
>>> Image file is the wrong length
>>> ok
>> 
>> I've checked, and I don't get that.
>> 
>>> By the way the file size is 1,048,576 bytes
>> 
>> Thanks.  That's the right size.
>> 
>> Please check the md5sum of the file as read by OpenFirmware from your
>> USB drive.  This will help me to isolate the cause to either
>> OpenFirmware, the XO-1, or your USB drive.  To make this check, please
>> create a text file md5sum.fth on the USB drive containing these lines:
>> 
>> -- cut here --
>> 
>> : md5sum "  " safe-parse-word 2dup $read-file abort" Read error" 2dup
>> $md5digest1 2swap free-mem push-hex bounds
>> ?do i c@ <# u# u# u#> type loop pop-base ."  " 2swap type type ;
>> 
>> md5sum u:\q2e48.rom
>> 
>> -- cut here --
>> 
>> Then insert the USB drive, get to the ok prompt, and type
>> 
>> 	fl u:\md5sum.fth
>> 
>> Then tell me what is displayed.
> 
> 155a68922bc7e3fea323d400eaf3e99a u:\q2e48.rom
> ok
> 
>> 
>> Please also tell me what version of OpenFirmware is on the XO-1 at the
>> moment.
>> 
> 
> q2e46 is the OFW currently installed on this XO-1
> 
>> -- 
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
> 

So I tried
 flash u:\q2e48.rom
again after running the md5sum.fth and this time the OFW flash worked!!!!