Please include /boot/olpc.fth in ext2 bootable parition
Proxecto: | Trisquel |
Componente: | Sugar |
Categoría: | solicitude de mellora |
Prioridade: | minor |
Asignado: | Sen asignar |
Estado: | closed |
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[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
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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).