Many thanks for this Wade! Sean
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Wade Brainerd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 file is indeed correct and just the md5 is out of date] 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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