On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks: > > Please forgive me if this doesn't belong here, but I'm a rookie :-) > > The new F14 live SoaS spin from the Sugarlabs link, when put onto a USB > stick using the Fedora Windows Live-USB-Creator, hangs immediately on > attempted boot at the initial " SYSLINUX 3.81 ....." line. It would > appear that this 3.81 version used by the creator may be too old for F14. > I notice on a raw F14-DVD ISO spin that it was using 4.02 SYSLINUX. So, I > poked around and found that there is this neat little zip archive up at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/4.xx/syslinux-4.02.zip. > If you unzip it then drill down into the win32 (or win64 if you are using a > 64-bit machine to build) and then copy that decompressed syslinux.exe over > the one in the LiveUSB program file "Tools" sub directory, and then go ahead > and re-build the USB stick, all is good. > > On a tangential note, the new SoaS build doesnt appear in the dropdown for > LiveUSB Creator yet, but downloading it from the Sugarlabs spins to the > machine, and then using the browse function on the creator pointing to the > downloaded ISO wokrs fine. (Just a friendly reminder to increase the > persistent storage, on a 4GB stick I chose 1220 and it seems to work fine). > The USB stick was formatted to FAT32, 32kb blocks, with Name FEDORA before > running the create. And o yeah, don't forget to change the BIOS boot order > to pick the USB HDD as the first. > > Cheers, and apologies for putting a Windows/Fedora/SoaS posting in the OLPC > stream. Perhaps someone more senior in the Fedora and Sugar areas who > monitors this could ship this upstream to a more appropriate place for those > who might want to know.
There's details of the problem in this blog post. http://www.fergytech.com/2010/11/getting-fedora-14-liveusb-to-boot/ Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
