[IAEP] Fwd: soas on classmate

[Mitchell Seaton]

Update:

Today I used Fedora Live USB creator on a windows machine to create the
SoaS-beta Live USB. Plugged it into Classmate-2 and it works! Sound, network
all good! very stoked.

Regards,
Mitch


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         Caroline Meeks
> >         Solution Grove
> >         Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
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