On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, 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... When I tried this (press <escape> at the one second blue screen) on the machines which failed to boot properly they did not exit to the menu screen but instead a message came up: aborted boot: I then tried tab anyway and got: linux0 check0 local
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