Hi Gary I had a [drm] error message and the problem turned out to be a bad ISO.
And, the bad ISO had been downloaded on a Mac and reported as successfully completed. I would suggest trying again with an md5 verified ISO Sean On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Dec 2009, at 01:52, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just a quick report after having spent the last hour or so trying to get a >> USB stick with SoaS Blueberry to boot on a MacBook Pro following the steps >> at: >> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#For_Mac_OS_X_Users >> >> 1). Having downloaded the .iso twice at different times, the md5 sum on that >> wiki page (4740da1026ab049b7781bbbdf21a8115) does not match the downloaded >> file (e0576a9e09d3eb13de46099c8d1ee74d), though the file size appeared >> correct on both occasions - 617,611,264 bytes (589M). >> >> [above is a fairly big potential oops, but moving on and assuming the .iso >> file is indeed correct and just the md5 is out of date] >> >> 2). The image-writer-mac script seemed to work nice and clearly to put the >> iso onto a 2GB USB stick, though I have no way to test the real result yet >> (no PC; MacBook Pro wont boot it though you can mount and browse the >> filesystem content; XO-1s OF think the USB stick has an unknown filesystem >> if you try to use them to boot/read it). >> >> 3). Using the boot CD >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-boot.iso seems to >> working, up to a point. Starting up the Mac with the alt key shows the CD as >> a bootable system (a few blinks from the USB led); boots to a sugar on a >> stick splash screen – 1 second delay auto boot (a few more USB blinks); >> black screen with cursor for ~10sec or so; and then: >> >> [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PRAMIN flush timeout >> >> ...with a flashing cursor below, no keyboard access to do anything, have to >> just hard power off. Repeated a couple of times with the same result. Tried >> again in each of the 3 USB ports with same result, though with one port I >> had an extra message before above that read: >> >> hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 >> >> 4) Tried booting the stick on XO-1s, but open firmware complains it has an >> unknown file system format, though it does mount OK once you boot into Sugar >> (from the nand). >> >> I'll give it a try later booting in a VirtualBox VM (that worked for some >> previous SoaS builds before F12), and I'll also give it a shot after burning >> the image as a bootable CD (that used to work OK, though obviously read only >> and missing some mac friendly HW drivers). Not looking too good as far as >> native Mac support goes. > > Last few tries of the evening. Just made a regular boot CD from the > soas-2-blueberry ISO (Disk Utility is the easy way to do this). The Mac is > happy to boot off the disk as far as the 'sugar on a stick' splash screen - > 10 sec auto boot countdown, but then fails once it tries to go further with > the same message: > > [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PRAMIN flush timeout > > After some googling about, turns out to be the ever present case of > unsupported video card drivers, so if you're a Mac user who isn't using and > NVIDIA GeForce 9400M or NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT you might still be in luck > (perhaps things like a Mac Mini). > > If at the splash screen I hit tab, tab to edit the boot parameters, adding > "nomodeset" will get me into a nongraphical boot that works all the way up to > just before X start's up, at which point the screen just goes black. Trying > "nomodeset single" will boot all the way to a single user root prompt, at > which typing startx will again give a black screen. I also gave "driver=vesa" > a go but that was a "[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PRAMIN flush timeout" error. > > If you're curious, google for "PRAMIN flush timeout" will turn up a bunch of > Mac folks trying to run F12 (and F11 I think), some have eventually managed > to hack things up by installing basic generic drivers (non-free most likely), > but they were installing to HD so had a read/write filesystem to hack about > on ;-) > > My poor Mac has never seen so many reboots in one day! Oh well, back to my > shiny, proprietary, apple flavoured interface of choice ;-b > > Regards, > --Gary > >> Any one else seen a Mac natively boot Blueberry? >> >> Regards, >> --Gary >> >> P.S. Finally signed up to the soas mail-list :-) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
