On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > 2 of the computers were boat anchors as far as I could tell and could not > boot into windows. I will confirm and then see if someone locally wants to > take them appart and try to fix them. > > I unfortunately did not have the password to get into windows. They are > getting me that for next time. The person I am working with did believe they > had network access from windows. > > I brougth a Puppy CD with me, I've found Puppy is the most likely to boot a > machine. I didn't use it this time though as I ran out of time and I wasn't > really sure where to start! I can go back as soon as Tuesday, its only 15 > minutes from both Walter and my houses. (its right in the middle!).
A couple of months ago I tried to convince the puppy developers to try to get Sugar to run on Puppy. Their heads started spinning around on their necks:( Gnome dependencies and micro distros don't seem to go together very well. david > Keep the suggestions coming!! > > Thanks, > Caroline > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Welcome to the world of school computers. >> >> My suggestions: >> >> Take a blank formatted SOAS drive with you. Take a (Fedora/Ubuntu) live >> cd with you. >> >> When testing, if the first soas boot fails, you should: >> >> Boot windows. See if the windows boot has network access. See if the >> cursor/mouse is working. >> >> See if you can read the soas stick having data (e.g. see the files. Read >> some specific file). See if you can write the soas stick with no data. >> >> If you can't do these things the machine is a boat anchor. >> >> If you can, see if you can boot the livecd. gmail the dmesg output to >> yourself and the list ... more diagnosis will be possible. >> >> Any other suggestions from the more knowledgeable? >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Caroline Meeks >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> YMCA Computer Lab 4/4/09 >>> >>> The Waltham YMCA is a community center with a room with 10 computers >>> pretty much all different. We have been invited to present Sugar at Healthy >>> Kids Day on April 18th. >>> >>> I went today to test SoaS >>> >>> Overall Results >>> >>> Only one computer (#8) was able to run SoaS2 >>> >>> Three computers ran SoaS1 = #2, #3, #4, >>> >>> No computers could connect to the internet or see any other Sugar >>> machine. >>> >>> Here are my notes. It worries me that we are giving out SoaS2 at FOSSVT >>> yet it seems to have a much higher failure rate. It would be good if we >>> could figure out some of these bugs. >>> >>> Detailed Notes: >>> >>> Starting to the left of the door ordering computers clockwise. >>> >>> Computer 1 – Does not stay on regardless of USB – Broken Computer. >>> >>> Computer 2 – F8 for setup then you can boot from USB. >>> >>> SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through – No boot >>> >>> SoaS1 – Boots >>> >>> Computer 3 >>> >>> Boots with CD helper on Soas2 but you can't see a curser for the mouse. I >>> can tell its there because I can get the frame to appear and disappear. >>> >>> SoaS1 Boots and you can see the curser arrow >>> >>> No internet access no one in neighborhood >>> >>> Del allowed me to change bios to boot from USB. Booting SoaS1 >>> >>> Computer 4 >>> >>> SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through – No boot >>> >>> SoaS1 – Boots, no internet access, no one in neighborhood. >>> >>> Computer 5 >>> >>> Delete to enter setup. >>> >>> SoaS1 create symlink error. >>> >>> Computer 6 >>> >>> Power button appears to be broken – Broken Computer >>> >>> Computer 7 >>> >>> Started to boot from USB SosS2 >>> >>> :: Denied BIOS AML access to invaldi pot 0x4d0+0x2 >>> >>> SoaS1 Gets to blue line then >>> >>> EXT – Fs error device dm-0 ext3_journal_start_sb deteceted aborted >>> journal – inode 6609, block544159 and 54305 >>> >>> Remounting filesystem read-only >>> >>> but does not boot >>> >>> Computer 8 >>> >>> Boots SoaS 2 from USB, no internet >>> >>> Used Del then changed the order of the hard drives >>> >>> Sound works >>> >>> Computer 9 >>> >>> Used Del then changed the order of the hard drives >>> >>> SoaS2 >>> >>> :: Denied BIOS AML access to invaldi port 0x4d0+0x1 (PICO) >>> >>> [sdb] Assuming drive cahce: write through >>> >>> SoaS1 – you must specify a file system type >>> >>> Computer 10 >>> >>> SoaS2 with Boot helper - Canot find root file system >>> >>> Same error with SoaS1 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Caroline Meeks >>> Solution Grove >>> [email protected] >>> >>> 617-500-3488 - Office >>> 505-213-3268 - Fax >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> >> >> -- >> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary >> depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
