[IAEP] Fwd: soas on classmate

[Marten Vijn]

Can you boot image from the drive with qemu and what happens?

to install qemu
sudo apt-get install qemu


sudo qemu /dev/sdc

My usb-drive is sdc here an can boot in qemu. 

FYI-1  I have seen about 10-20% of first attemps not working. That's why
i wack the mbr of zero that whole drive.  

FYI-2 there are usb-drives/flashdrives that can't boot. To find out you
need to play a little  with other hardware to find the failing part.
Swapping parts is generally a fast way. And qemu can also help to
isolate issues. 


Kind regards,
Marten




On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:18 +1000, Mitchell Seaton wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Caroline Meeks
> <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Is it this problem? http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/421
>         
>         How much of the boot do you get through?
> 
> No boot. I simply get "Missing operating system". I select to boot
> from usb: Sony etc, and immediately shows this screen. 
>  
>         
>         
>         If so I have some questions that might help us gather data.
>         
>         1. Did you burn your stick on windows or linux?
> 
> Using Ubuntu 8.10 with livecd-iso-to-disk script, 
>  
>         
>         2. FAT or FAT32 format. And actually we know that in your
>         case.  4GB can only be FAT32.  If you have a 1 or 2GB stick,
>         try formatting it FAT before you burn and let me know if that
>         works.
> 
> Cleared the MBR, reformatted as FAT (32) using mkfs.vfat.  
> Changed "default" to linux0 in syslinux.cfg.
> USB has two directories: LiveOS and syslinux directories.
> 
> Still having the same problem occurring. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mitch
> 
> 
>         
>         
>         thanks,
>         Caroline
>         
>         
>         On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Mitchell Seaton <meaton.2v
>         +iaep at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>                 
>                 Hi,
>                 
>                 Recently I've been trying to load SoaS
>                 (http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903232259.iso) onto a Classmate-2 laptop that we have here at my work. Following the instructions on the wiki (Sugar on a Stick/Installation) using using live iso to disk script, I created the USB (on a Sony 4GB Stick). 
>                 
>                 However, booting from the USB on the Classmate I have
>                 the following msg "Missing operating system". I know
>                 there are some examples of SoaS working out there in
>                 the community I was wondering if there maybe some
>                 steps I'm missing. I will try with different USB or SD
>                 card shortly. I have yet to try to boot on another
>                 machine so far. 
>                 
>                 Regards,
>                 Mitchell Seaton
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
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