Announce: first bootable Rawhide build

Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Tue Feb 17 21:33:49 UTC 2009


W00T!!!  I'll be making mine first thing in the morning.  Well done, sir.

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, 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
>
> USB/SD:
>
> * insert a USB key that is at least 2G, and:
>    zcat 20090217.bootable.gz > /dev/sdX
> * SD should work, but we're seeing a problem with the kernel SD driver
>
> qemu:
>
> * sudo qemu-kvm -cdrom 20090217.iso
>
> Known problems:
>
> * wireless crashes the machine on boot, so it is disabled.
> * fonts are tiny in Sugar
> * The tty framebuffer is corrupted; fix sent upstream, not made it back
>  to Fedora yet
>
> Steps to reproduce the build:
>
> git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/fedora-xo
> sudo livecd-creator --cache=cache -c ~/fedora-xo/olpc-desktop.ks
>  (this produces the ISO)
> sudo sh livecd-iso-to-xo.sh 20090217.iso 20090217.img
>  (produces NAND image and CRC)
> sudo /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --format --xo --xo-no-home 20090217.iso /dev/sdX1
>  (produces a bootable disk or SD card)
> sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=20090217.bootable && gzip 20090217.bootable
>  (produces a raw image of the created disk)
>
> Please report any problems you find to the list, thanks,
>
> - Chris.
> -- 
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>
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