For the second time in about a month my OLPC refused to boot. Last time I did a clean reinstall and it has been up for a couple of weeks. But again it happened. I turned on the power and nada - it didn't boot.<br><br>I figured out that the following failed:<br>
<br> dir nand:\<br><br>It just timeouts until I hit the power.<br><br>Roaming the net I found the note at <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3247">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3247</a> and ran the command "test /nandflash::fixbbt". The result was not too encouraging:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Note: a few bad blocks is normal - these are already known:<br>[stuff deleted]<br></div><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Test every block<br>fcc826cf Save<br>Bad block at 0x7e641367800 = page 0xfcc82c7 = eblock 0xfff32096<br>
fc969ce6 SAVE<br>READ 55<br>Bad block at 07e364e73000 = page 0xfc6c9ce6 = eblock 0xfff1b273<br>RESTORE<br>WRITE aa<br>RESTORE<br>Page Fault<br>Ok<br><br></div>Page Fault? What happened?<br><br>Rerunning the command gives about the same result.<br>
<br>So has my OLPC turned into a brick? Is there any point in trying to reinstall the OS?<br><br>Thanks!<br>Dov<br><br>