Please include /boot/olpc.fth in ext2 bootable parition

Proxecto:Trisquel
Componente:Sugar
Categoría:solicitude de mellora
Prioridade:minor
Asignado:Sen asignar
Estado:closed
Descrición

[apologies for the wrong version and component - I couldn't understand which component you'd prefer - perhaps Instalador would be better?]

The OLPC XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops's firmware (like BIOS but better), Open Firmware (OFW) takes the place of grub/syslinux in the boot process. OFW knows how to read ext2, ext3, jffs2, and vfat filesystems. OFW does the following upon bootup:

1) look for a bootable (and readable -- see above) partition on a pre-configured set of devices
2) look for a file "/boot/olpc.fth" in the found partitions
3) read and execute the forth commands in /boot/olpc.fth

All that is required for OFW to boot Trisquel is to place a useful olpc.fth in /boot of the bootable, readable partition existent on disk (so not the ext3 squashfs file that has the main filesystem, for example).

An example patch to do this in http://devel.trisquel.info/isobuilder/makedistro is at http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patch

Martin

Ven, 10/02/2009 - 23:11
Proxecto:Trisquel Edu» Trisquel
Versión:2.1-i386»
Estado:active» patch (needs review)

We have a new release including the patch, and also Sugar 0.86.1: http://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686.iso (same url).

Ven, 10/14/2011 - 21:16
Estado:patch (needs review)» closed