Thank you, that explains the problems I was seeing as well. Matt
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Please when detailing technical issues strip off non relevant lists so > we don't spam them. > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raffael Reichelt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Great! I just tried the 64bit version on my old MacBookAir and for the first >> time with SOAS it tries to boot. Thr bootsplash pops upand it is offrering >> thr bootmenu ... unfortunatly then nothing else happens. Is there a chance >> to get it to work completly? I would love it! > > That's a problem with the graphics mapping on the Apple devices. We > need to add the details to the kernel to support it. If you can run > the command that's provided in the following bug comment > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528232#c20 and the either > add a comment to the bug with the details or provide the details here > and we can organise to get the problem fixed. > > Peter > > >> 2010/11/3 Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]> >>> >>> Great News; >>> >>> Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-SoaS CD Boots fine on an Apple MacBook Air with an >>> external hp-DVD/CD usb drive. >>> >>> Hold "C" and tap power button keep holding the "C" key down until the >>> blue fedora boot screen appears >>> Select Boot (Basic Video)-second line >>> boots to bar display Fedora 14; (Name_____); Choose password for new >>> keyring; hit cancel 6 times. >>> F3 Ring appears >>> >>> Use the usb to cat 5 Air dongle ( applesmc.78) as Network Manager does not >>> recognize the Mac Air's wireless hardware. >>> f1 neighborhood will be full of [email protected] names >>> >>> To fix this go to drop down / My settings /About me. change colors and >>> restart. On restart the names will be correct. >>> ONLY IF you enter the key chain password you entered 1 time when you >>> started sugar. >>> >>> These are known bugs >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_Bugs#Current_Bugs >>> >>> ALSO >>> >>> There is a new Boot CD for Macs and computers that cannot boot from USB >>> >>> Boot helper CD for Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS: >>> <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso> >>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> > If anyone else is interested, I put together a boot helper for >>>>> > Mirabelle. Burned to a CD, it enabled booting a USB stick on my >>>>> > MacBook Pro. The stick was partitioned with the plain old MBR format >>>>> > and labeled "FEDORA". I also got both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox to >>>>> > boot the USB stick using this boot helper ISO. The soas-2-boot ISO >>>>> > sort of works with Mirabelle sticks, but they have different kernel >>>>> > versions so modules don't load, thus no networking. That is fixed in >>>>> > this build. >>>>> > >>>>> > <http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-3-boot-test.iso> >>>>> > >>>>> > Matt >>>>> > >>>>> >>> >>> Please Test these result on other MAC's and report here in wiki: >>> >>> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Macintosh_Testing >>> >>> Congratulations to all >>> >>> Enjoy; >>> >>> Tom Gilliard >>> satellit >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> This is the non announcement announcement of the release of Sugar on a >>>> Stick 4 Mango Lassi is out. >>>> >>>> You can download both the 32 and 64 bit version from >>>> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ >>>> >>>> There's an outline of some common bugs in Fedora 14 and hence Fedora >>>> 14 outlined here >>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs >>>> >>>> Some of the notable enhancements include: >>>> - Sugar 0.90 >>>> - Support for more wireless adapters including the rtl2xxx series of >>>> adapters that are common in eee PCs >>>> - Improved Apple Mac support (still needs SoaS verification as >>>> apparently its a major problem but I could only find Fedora people to >>>> test it for me) >>>> - Quite a lot of things that I can't remember >>>> >>>> I would like to thank Sebastian, Mel, Simon, Thomas and everyone else >>>> who has contributed to this release. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Peter >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
