Announce: first bootable Rawhide build

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Michael Solberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 16:08 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today's (unmodified) Rawhide build boots into X on the XO, so I made
>> some disk images for it.  They contain both Sugar and GNOME, and you
>> can choose between the two in GDM.  Sebastian Dziallas made the
>> kickstart file that we're using.
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/20090217/
>>
>> Installation instructions:
>>
>> * Get a developer key, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_Developer_Keys
>> * Upgrade to latest OFW, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e32
>>
>> NAND:
>>
>> * put 20090217.img and .crc on a USB key
>> * in OFW:  copy-nand u:\20090217.img
> 
> I still can't seem to get this to work on my XO.
> 
> I have the latest firmware, the developer key on my USB stick
> in /security/develop.sig, I ran "disable-security" in Open Firmware, and
> I copied the image to the nand.
> 
> I no longer get the frowny face, I can't get past "Loading ramdisk image
> from nand:\boot\initrd0.img ...".
> 
> Is this a symptom of the SD card support issues?
> 
> Michael.

I had this issue some days ago when trying to copy the 20090227 image to 
NAND. As it turned out, I didn't have the updated firmware! You might 
want to grab it from here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e32

Hope this helps ;)

--Sebastian