pretty boot plymouth security

[Scott Douglass]

Two questions and a tip for newbies related to booting rawhide on the
XO.

Q1
What is the status of "pretty boot" or plymouth in rawhide on XO? Is
that supposed to work? It did work when booting F10 off SD card a while
back.


Q2
A somewhat related question...

I have just re-verified that I have disable-security'd my XO in the
firmware (reports "No wp tag" which supposedly means no security
enabled.) However, when I turn on my XO which has rawhide on the NAND,
the XO doesn't appear to do anything. I just get the XO person in the
middle of the screen.

The only way I can boot is to hit the escape key and type "boot" at the
"ok" prompt. I've been sort of just accepting this... but I'm starting
to get a bit frustrated.

Is there some trick to help the XO boot without my intervention?

TIP
Just for anyone else who might be playing with rawhide kernels and
booting, make a backup of a working /boot/olpc.fth before you do
anything you don't fully understand :-)

Then at the OK prompt you can rescue yourself by doing:

ok editenv boot-device

change the nand:\boot\olpc.fth to nand:\boot\olpc.fth.good

Save the change and boot.