Update: Today I used Fedora Live USB creator on a windows machine to create the SoaS-beta Live USB. Plugged it into Classmate-2 and it works! Sound, network all good! very stoked.
Regards, Mitch On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Marten Vijn <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you boot image from the drive with qemu and what happens? > > to install qemu > sudo apt-get install qemu > > > sudo qemu /dev/sdc > > My usb-drive is sdc here an can boot in qemu. > > FYI-1 I have seen about 10-20% of first attemps not working. That's why > i wack the mbr of zero that whole drive. > > FYI-2 there are usb-drives/flashdrives that can't boot. To find out you > need to play a little with other hardware to find the failing part. > Swapping parts is generally a fast way. And qemu can also help to > isolate issues. > > > Kind regards, > Marten > > > > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:18 +1000, Mitchell Seaton wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Caroline Meeks > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it this problem? http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/421 > > > > How much of the boot do you get through? > > > > No boot. I simply get "Missing operating system". I select to boot > > from usb: Sony etc, and immediately shows this screen. > > > > > > > > If so I have some questions that might help us gather data. > > > > 1. Did you burn your stick on windows or linux? > > > > Using Ubuntu 8.10 with livecd-iso-to-disk script, > > > > > > 2. FAT or FAT32 format. And actually we know that in your > > case. 4GB can only be FAT32. If you have a 1 or 2GB stick, > > try formatting it FAT before you burn and let me know if that > > works. > > > > Cleared the MBR, reformatted as FAT (32) using mkfs.vfat. > > Changed "default" to linux0 in syslinux.cfg. > > USB has two directories: LiveOS and syslinux directories. > > > > Still having the same problem occurring. > > > > Cheers, > > Mitch > > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > Caroline > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Mitchell Seaton <meaton.2v > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Recently I've been trying to load SoaS > > ( > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903232259.iso) > onto a Classmate-2 laptop that we have here at my work. Following the > instructions on the wiki (Sugar on a Stick/Installation) using using live > iso to disk script, I created the USB (on a Sony 4GB Stick). > > > > However, booting from the USB on the Classmate I have > > the following msg "Missing operating system". I know > > there are some examples of SoaS working out there in > > the community I was wondering if there maybe some > > steps I'm missing. I will try with different USB or SD > > card shortly. I have yet to try to boot on another > > machine so far. > > > > Regards, > > Mitchell Seaton > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop > > project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > -- > http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn > http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick > http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit > http://har2009.org 13th-16th August > http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August > >
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