On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote:
> ===Sugar Digest=== In the meanwhile, we need to: experiment with more USB manufacturers; > be more careful about characterizing the different failure modes; do > some workflow experiments to see if we can minimize failures; try > different file formats; and come up with simple and robust > backup/restore mechanism so that we can end run failures. > > Greg Dekoenigsberg has suggested we take advantage of Fedora Test > Days] to put a more rigorous analysis together. But we need a testing > plan which means we need to first come to consensus on what it is we > are trying to test. > > Variables include: > > * Which Sugar-on-a-Stick image is being tested? > * What customizations have been made? > * What process was used to create the key? > * What size and brand of key is being tested? > * What hardware the key is being tested on? > * What is the nature of the failure? (no boot, corrupted data, etc.?) > * What was the history of use prior to failure? The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older computers at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still work fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron. This is a very consistent pattern. I have 8 sticks with SD cards and 6 have failed on older computers but all of those 6 still work on the Dell mini inspiron. They start to boot, the xo icon appears and dots but not icons appear in the circle. This screen hangs for a while and then exits to a black screen with this message: Warning: cannot find root file system Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence bash: no job control in this shell bash - 4.0# My other sticks are a mixture of Kingstons and Laser and none of these have failed. Let me know if you want more detail such as answers to all of the above questions.
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