On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> wrote: > Sascha Silbe wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: >> >>> 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. >> The older ones are not XOs, right? >> >>> Warning: cannot find root file system >> Can you append "rootwait" (without the quotes) to the kernel parameters, >> please? >> I hope Sebastian can give specific instructions how to do this >> interactively for SoaS. > > I'll try to! :) > > When you boot SoaS, you'll see a blue screen for one second - press > <escape> there quickly - you'll be presented a menu saying in its first > entry "boot". Press <tabulator> there. > > You can now modify the kernel arguments (add rootwait) and boot by > pressing <enter> then. This will add it only once, though. Usually, one > needs to edit /etc/grub.conf to makesuch a change persistent, but I seem > to recall that this didn't work in live images lately...
You need to edit /syslinux/syslinux.cfg on the USB to change the boot parameters permenantly. Dave > > --Sebastian > >> CU Sascha > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
