OFW secure reflash claims it's erasing when it's actually reflashing

[cscott]

During secure reflash, the text below the "lots of rectangles display" never switches from "erasing" to (presumably) "reflashing", even though the color of the drawn rectangles changes from black to green. (q2d14)

[wmb@…]

svn 831

I added a "Writing" message to show that erasing is done and writing has commenced. I also added "Your USB key may be bad. Please try a different one" after the "Bad hash for eblock# N" message.

The fix will appear in Q2D17.

[cscott]

Oddly enough, the new trend I'm noticing is that people "fix" the bad USB key syndrome by copying the damaged file from the old USB key onto a new USB key, and then complain that it still doesn't work.

I have no idea how to better address this. Maybe, "The file on your USB key may be corrupt because your USB key is damaged. Please redownload the file into a different USB key."?

<sigh>

[wmb@…]

That seems unlikely to help much. In my experience, people rarely read things carefully. I don't see how to convey it clearly enough in a short message.

Perhaps the message should point to a wiki troubleshooting page in addition to the brief message.

[cscott]

That sounds like a good idea: the wiki allows for translation as well. Trade off is that connectivity is required. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bad_hash ?

[gregorio]

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