[Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Brian,

that doesn't sound pretty. Who did you receive the server from? What
deployment are you part of?

The server -- can boot from USB or from a CD? Perhaps you can boot
from a linux "live" CD or live USB to diagnose?

cheers,


m

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00 PM, HALL,Brian C
<brian.hall02 at uwimona.edu.jm> wrote:
> Good Day,
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> I recently received an OLPC school server. When I booted it, I got the
> error: “Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter”
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> Could anyone assist me with this issue?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Brian Hall
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> From: server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org
> [mailto:server-devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Anna
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:54 PM
> To: Martin Langhoff
> Cc: Sridhar Dhanapalan; XS Devel
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] OLPC Australia XS concerns
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> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> the XO's WLAN can be the AP
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> Note that running hostap is not a trivial endeavour.
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> Unless something's changed recently since the last time I looked, the XO's
> wifi chip doesn't support hostapd.  The best I've been able to kludge
> together (back when I used the XO as a portable XS to tote to training
> sessions) was a USB-Ethernet adapter on eth1 connected to an old Linksys
> AP.  If wifi was available, the XO's WLAN worked as eth0.
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> Anna Schoolfield
> Birmingham
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