<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Holt <holt@laptop.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> XS Devel <server-devel@lists.laptop.org>; Support Gangsters <support-gang@laptop.org>; Devel's in the Details <devel@lists.laptop.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, May 11, 2013 3:44 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [support-gang] 1TB drive of quality open content on XO/XS--won't boot<br> </font> </div> <div
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Is there a way to boot a large USB hard drive attached to an XO?<br>The XOs (eg. XO-4 etc) refuse to auto-boot, leaving the screen at the OK prompt.<br>Does firmware currently block the mounting of all large USB drives -- NTFS in this case if not other filesystems?<br>Might there be a workaround so isolated XO servers in Haiti (etc!) can hopefully auto-boot with this quality free content?<br>Cheers!<br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">My general impression is that NTFS being a non-unix FS(file system) is not greatly supported(which is not to say it has no support, but less than ideal) by linux(the kernel) and I'm guessing by the much smaller OFW there is even more limited FS options, so I'd guess it doesn't support it. So my view would be to format the drive with more likely supported FS like fat, ext2,ext3, ext4(not sure)? </div><div class="y_msg_container">I'm not sure of the XO-4 issue. I'd expect an XO
to look for a bootable drive (internal, external) and then some kind of network option. And it would fail if none were found and then show the OK prompt? But there might be an issue that is related to attaching a usb-powered? usb drive at boot? See if it recognized by attaching the drive after the XO boot, if it does, then its related to the OFW FS support or some other boot issue.</div><div class="y_msg_container">-Kevix</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>