Booting OLPC OS 12.1 from USB sticks and SD cards

[Sascha Silbe]

Hi folks!

As I've had considerable trouble getting OLPC OS 12.1 to work on my XOs,
I thought I'd share with everyone what I know to be broken so others
don't fall into the same traps:

|                  | XO-1                    | XO-1.5  | XO-1.75        |
|------------------+-------------------------+---------+----------------|
| USB stick        | working                 | working | boot broken    |
| external SD card | boot and suspend broken | working | suspend broken |

Tickets:
- boot broken: OLPC#11872 [1]
- suspend broken: OLPC#11751 [2]


Add hardware compatibility issues to the above and you'll end up with a
less than 50% chance to get OLPC OS 12.1 to work on a random XO. That's
a lot of fun to diagnose when trying to test something else...

Sascha

[1] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11872
[2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11751

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