[IAEP] Testing SoaS at Waltham MA YMCA

[David Farning]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> 2 of the computers were boat anchors as far as I could tell and could not
> boot into windows. I will confirm and then see if someone locally wants to
> take them appart and try to fix them.
>
> I unfortunately did not have the password to get into windows.  They are
> getting me that for next time. The person I am working with did believe they
> had network access from windows.
>
> I brougth a Puppy CD with me, I've found Puppy is the most likely to boot a
> machine.  I didn't use it this time though as I ran out of time and I wasn't
> really sure where to start!  I can go back as soon as Tuesday, its only 15
> minutes from both Walter and my houses. (its right in the middle!).

A couple of months ago I tried to convince the puppy developers to try
to get Sugar to run on Puppy.  Their heads started spinning around on
their necks:(  Gnome dependencies and micro distros don't seem to go
together very well.

david

> Keep the suggestions coming!!
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
>>
>> Welcome to the world of school computers.
>>
>> My suggestions:
>>
>> Take a blank formatted SOAS drive with you.  Take a (Fedora/Ubuntu) live
>> cd with you.
>>
>> When testing, if the first soas boot fails, you should:
>>
>> Boot windows.  See if the windows boot has network access.  See if the
>> cursor/mouse is working.
>>
>> See if you can read the soas stick having data (e.g. see the files.  Read
>> some specific file).  See if you can write the soas stick with no data.
>>
>> If you can't do these things the machine is a boat anchor.
>>
>> If you can, see if you can boot the livecd.  gmail the dmesg output to
>> yourself and the list ... more diagnosis will be possible.
>>
>> Any other suggestions from the more knowledgeable?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Caroline Meeks
>> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> YMCA Computer Lab 4/4/09
>>>
>>> The Waltham YMCA is a community center with a room with 10 computers
>>> pretty much all different.  We have been invited to present Sugar at Healthy
>>> Kids Day on April 18th.
>>>
>>> I went today to test SoaS
>>>
>>> Overall Results
>>>
>>> Only one computer (#8) was able to run SoaS2
>>>
>>> Three computers ran SoaS1 = #2, #3, #4,
>>>
>>> No computers could connect to the internet or see any other Sugar
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> Here are my notes. It worries me that we are giving out SoaS2 at FOSSVT
>>> yet it seems to have a much higher failure rate. It would be good if we
>>> could figure out some of these bugs.
>>>
>>> Detailed Notes:
>>>
>>> Starting to the left of the door ordering computers clockwise.
>>>
>>> Computer 1 – Does not stay on regardless of USB – Broken Computer.
>>>
>>> Computer 2 – F8 for setup then you can boot from USB.
>>>
>>> SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through – No boot
>>>
>>> SoaS1 – Boots
>>>
>>> Computer 3
>>>
>>> Boots with CD helper on Soas2 but you can't see a curser for the mouse. I
>>> can tell its there because I can get the frame to appear and disappear.
>>>
>>> SoaS1 Boots and you can see the curser arrow
>>>
>>> No internet access no one in neighborhood
>>>
>>> Del allowed me to change bios to boot from USB. Booting SoaS1
>>>
>>> Computer 4
>>>
>>> SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through – No boot
>>>
>>> SoaS1 – Boots, no internet access, no one in neighborhood.
>>>
>>> Computer 5
>>>
>>> Delete to enter setup.
>>>
>>> SoaS1 create symlink error.
>>>
>>> Computer 6
>>>
>>> Power button appears to be broken – Broken Computer
>>>
>>> Computer 7
>>>
>>> Started to boot from USB SosS2
>>>
>>> :: Denied BIOS AML access to invaldi pot 0x4d0+0x2
>>>
>>> SoaS1 Gets to blue line then
>>>
>>> EXT – Fs error device dm-0 ext3_journal_start_sb deteceted aborted
>>> journal – inode 6609, block544159 and 54305
>>>
>>> Remounting filesystem read-only
>>>
>>> but does not boot
>>>
>>> Computer 8
>>>
>>> Boots SoaS 2 from USB, no internet
>>>
>>> Used Del then changed the order of the hard drives
>>>
>>> Sound works
>>>
>>> Computer 9
>>>
>>> Used Del then changed the order of the hard drives
>>>
>>> SoaS2
>>>
>>> :: Denied BIOS AML access to invaldi port 0x4d0+0x1 (PICO)
>>>
>>> [sdb] Assuming drive cahce: write through
>>>
>>> SoaS1 – you must specify a file system type
>>>
>>> Computer 10
>>>
>>> SoaS2 with Boot helper - Canot find root file system
>>>
>>> Same error with SoaS1
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Caroline Meeks
>>> Solution Grove
>>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>>
>>> 617-500-3488 - Office
>>> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary
>> depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
>
>
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>
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