On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:48:00PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
I have been doing FAT16 exclusively until today, but (if i'm not
confused) the latest SoaS-2 which image failed to boot my XOs when
formatted FAT16 succeeded when formatted FAT32.
By the way when using the fedora liveusb-creator
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:58:20PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
Windows GUI does a quick high-level format
The issue is that one will probably significantly reduce the useful
lifetime of the USB stick if you don't format the drive in a certain
way (which way is unknown to me for FAT systems, though
2009/3/27 Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com:
It's a lot better not to re-format *at all* USB sticks one gets if one
can help it:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
I have been doing FAT16 exclusively until today, but (if i'm not
confused) the latest SoaS-2 which image failed to boot my XOs when
formatted FAT16 succeeded when formatted FAT32.
By the way when using the fedora liveusb-creator v3.6.3 (previous revs
fail) on WinXP i found that formatting the
I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused here, is it possible or not at this
time to boot an XO-1 from a SoaS image (as we claim on the wiki:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC)?
if so, how? since the instructions for Option 1 on the wiki page are
not working for me.
I see
Hey Sean,
FWIW I have successfully booted my XO-1 from SoaS-1 using an older image, I
haven't tried the latest. I used LiveUSB Creator for Windows with a PATRIOT
2GB stick.
What you might be seeing is that you have a SD card with a bootable
partition on your XO. I think that might take
OK thanks Wade
If you can tell me just which image you have, I can try with that one.
Same behavior with the SD card in or out, and on the other XO with no
SD card at all.
Neither the SoaS-1 (March 5th), nor the SoaS-2 (March 21st) have a
'boot' directory, nor a '.fth' Forth script at all. If I
hmmm... yes, I downloaded and installed v3.2 on March 4th... four days
before the new version came out!
the utility itself keeps as a big fat secret what version it is...
I'll be happy if that fixes the problem... but upset if the 8 or 10
hours I have put in trying to boot useless sticks was
OK, no boot from today's SoaS-2 in the slot
However, when rebooting, Esc countdown did not appear unless Check key pressed
at OK forth prompt I typed:
ok boot u:\boot\olpc.fth
the script started then failed with this text:
*
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
Success booting an XO-1 with March 23rd SoaS-1!
I allotted 130 Mb persistent storage on 2 Gb stick formatted FAT (not
FAT32) on WinXP then .iso loaded with fedora LiveUSB Creator v3.6.3
utility. (Note: utility insulted me for trying to overwrite the
bootable stick which wouldn't boot so reformat
Great. So do you think the problem was the SoaS image or FAT vs FAT32?
I do recall that OFW used to be finicky about USB keys that no longer
had their factory formatting.
-walter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Success booting an XO-1 with March 23rd
The biggest problem was, I had used an ancient version of the fedora
utility from way back at the beginning of March (!) which didn't load
any of /boot/olpc.fth
The SoaS-2 March 21st I booted the Aspire One with yesterday I had
done with Unetbootin for Windows. The SoaS-2 March 25th done with
I have just updated firmware to Q2E35, no boot either from SoaS-1
March 5th or SoaS March 21st.
Both of these boot my Acer Aspire One no problem.
Weirdly, following the instructions on this page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manual_Firmware_Install failed with a bad
CRC when the rom image was
I am having a more fundamental issue.
1) First I used liveusb-creator on windows with Soas1 and created the crc
and img files to install to the NAND. That doesn't work for me.
2) Next I tried technique one from Fedora 10 but the livecd-iso-to-disk does
not have the --xo options. It looks like
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