For Mac folks, I created a VirtualBox disk image from the Blueberry kickstart. It works great on my Intel iMac running Snow Leopard.
http://people.sugarlabs.org/~wadeb/soas-blueberry-vdi.zip (My filename choice is a bit poor since it actually contains a .vmdk file ;)) I also emailed the kickstart file to Sebastian; hopefully we'll see VM disk images as part of the regular stream going forward. -Wade On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 file is indeed correct and just the md5 is out of date] 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. 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