Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-14 Thread Bill Kerr
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: [CC list trimmed quite a bit] On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:20:17PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: aborted boot: I then tried tab anyway and got: linux0 check0 local Please try typing linux0 rootwait

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-10 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-10 Thread Sascha Silbe
[CC list trimmed quite a bit] On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:20:17PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: aborted boot: I then tried tab anyway and got: linux0 check0 local Please try typing linux0 rootwait (without the quotes) and pressing return at the boot: prompt. CU Sascha --

[Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Kerr
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: ===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

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Sascha Silbe
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:

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Dave Bauer
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: Variables include: ... - what is the partition table as printed by fdisk -p /dev/sdX ? - for the main partition on the USB, where the SoaS is stored (a FAT variant?) what are the fs options? (we need the moral equivalent of

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org 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