[OLPC-SF] Trouble trying to upgrade a very old OLPC XO ...

[Joachim Pedersen]

> Perhaps the 4gb drive is too big ?
It might not be formatted in such a way that the firmware can
recognize it. Have you tried formatting the usb drive. It should be
formatted FAT or FAT32 with only one partition. Do you have another
flash drive you can try? Some times certain usb drives don't seem to
work for flashing.
see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_drive#USB_drives_and_firmware

> Copy the o852.img to my usb drive (I'm assuming a FAT formatted 4GB usb
> drive is fine?)
> Copy the fs.zip file to the drive.
> Add the usb drive to one of the slots.
> Press _all_ 4 gamepad keys and power on the laptop.
This is correct, if it is going to work, it starts automatically
re-flashing the laptop once you release the game pad keys.

-Joachim
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http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_drive#USB_drives_and_firmware


On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 17:31, Krishnan R.S. <rskrishnan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Joachim,
>    Thanks for the pointer to the wiki page. I did try this following these
> steps:
>
> Copy the o852.img to my usb drive (I'm assuming a FAT formatted 4GB usb
> drive is fine?)
> Copy the fs.zip file to the drive.
> Add the usb drive to one of the slots.
> Press _all_ 4 gamepad keys and power on the laptop.
>
> I get some messages that indicate that the usb drive is recognized.
> Then it drops into the usual boot process and then gets stuck after it
> displays the login: prompt.
> I get some messages about CRC errors and then it's an infinite loop to
> login: and then an error message which disappears too quickly to read.
> Note the error messages + looping used to happen before my attempt to
> upgrade using USB.
> Is there something I should look for when the usb device is recognized ?
> Perhaps the 4gb drive is too big ?
> Thanks,
> Krishnan
>
> --
> Krishnan Subramaniam
> rskrishnan at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:57:17 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] Trouble trying to upgrade a very old OLPC XO ...
>> From: joachimp at gmail.com
>> To: rskrishnan at hotmail.com
>> CC: olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org
>>
>> Please see the instructions here:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.2#XO-1
>> the short:
>> You need a usb drive that is at least 1GB, and you need to download two
>> files
>>
>> best of luck-
>> -Joachim
>> olpc-sf repair
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>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 19:42, Krishnan R.S. <rskrishnan at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >    I managed to get my hands on a very old OLPC XO laptop for my
>> > daughter.
>> > I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to upgrade the OS to something
>> > current.
>> > The main issues are:
>> >
>> > My image has no olpc-update
>> > I tried to follow the wiki instruction to update olpc-update - alas that
>> > leads to more issues about missing python2.5
>> > I tried to install python using apt/deb/dpkg but all of these fail since
>> > the
>> > apt/deb/dpkg tools are missing :(
>> > Looking at /etc/issue - I see build 417 - and some messages that look
>> > like
>> > errors "kernel \r \m ...." :) so maybe I have a pre-alpha build :)
>> > After trying the above now I can't seem to be able to boot into 'X' on
>> > the
>> > XO - it just keeps looping looking for something - I've most likely made
>> > a
>> > bad situation worse :(
>> >
>> > So ... I'm somewhat at a loss as to what my next steps are. My daughter
>> > seems pretty excited with the device and enjoys the "paint" application.
>> > I'd
>> > like to get a more recent build so she can use the newer apps/toos.
>> > Can you point me in the right direction ? Or am I wasting my time trying
>> > to
>> > do the impossible?
>> >
>> > Or if someone could send me a list of things to check/verify - so we can
>> > see
>> > if it can be upgraded or not.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Krishnan
>> >
>> > --
>> > Krishnan Subramaniam
>> > rskrishnan at hotmail.com
>> >
>> >
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