Here's what I know about the SoaS CD Helper: On Pentium III machines (Win 2000, ME, 98) SoaS Strawberry and Blueberry boot fine; Mirabelle (Fedora 13) doesn't.
Mirabelle fails (gets stuck) after the completion of the SoaS 1 bar at the bottom of the screen, with the message: Unable to ennumerate USB device on port X (1 or 2) FWIW as well, my fairly modern dual-core AMD desktop also fails when booting Mirabelle from CD Helper. This too is right after completion of the SoaS 1 bar, but with blank screen except for a blinking dot in upper left corner. Keyboard is active, and pressing Alt-F4 brings up a login screen: localhost login: above which appears: Fedora release 13 (Goddard) My desktop also fails to boot SoaS *Blueberry* from CD Helper. Here the message, on otherwise blank screen, is: BD: barrier-based sync failed on dm-0:8 disabling barriers Bottom line?: Perhaps if CD Helper could be gotten to work on current systems (especially with Mirabelle), it would also work on the older machines. I'd be happy to be a tester, especially as I've a variety of older units. Art Hunkins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Bender" <[email protected]> To: "Development of live Sugar distributions" <[email protected]> Cc: "Art Hunkins" <[email protected]>; "Mel Chua" <[email protected]>; "iaep" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar thisweek and next > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Art Hunkins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've noticed that neither the SoaS CD Boot Helper nor the SoaS Floppy >>> Disk >>> Boot Helper manage to boot SoaS Mirabelle (Fedora 13). (For that matter, >>> the >>> Floppy Disk Helper doesn't boot anything but Strawberry.) >> >> I don't think Floppy Disks are relevant at all. I doubt any of the >> developers actually have a floppy drive to test. >> >> For the boot helper CD..... I have no interest in getting it working, >> I have asked people to provide me specific devices that have problems >> and need the boot helper CD. The only one i've ever got back is newer >> Mac's. I know what that problem is. For the rest no one has bothered >> to send me the specs so I haven't bothered spending the time. >> > > I will dig up the old thread where I did offer the specs of the > machines we encounter in the Boston Public Schools that will not boot > directly off of USB, but are quite happy with a Helper CD. This is > also true of the computer we have worked with at the YMCA. I suspect > this is true of most of the computers in elementary schools and > available to afterschool programs in much of the urban United States. > Think Windows-2000-era machines and you will know what is in schools > States-side. > > -walter > >>> Is anybody interested in working on this, or are we basically abandoning >>> older computers? >> >> See above. >> >> Peter >> >>> Art Hunkins >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Mel Chua" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >>> "iaep" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >>> "SoaS" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:48 AM >>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar >>> thisweek and next >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Next week we'll have another - slightly larger - batch from RIT doing >>>> the same thing, with myself, Chris Tyler, and Luke Macken focusing more >>>> on how to make Fedora a better environment for >>>> running/deploying/developing Sugar - if you have any thoughts in this >>>> direction, please send comments our way! (Things we've come up with so >>>> far: general Python development stuff, liveusb-creator hacks, SVG >>>> rendering working strangely in different recent versions of Fedora... >>>> we >>>> need to turn this into a proper ticket queue.) >>>> >>>> Just wanted to let y'all know. I'll blog this to Planet in a moment. >>>> >>>> --Mel >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SoaS mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
