[IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

[Gary C Martin]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper.  But I was  
> able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to  
> your results!

Just a quick report on trying to boot Soas2-200904161412.iso on a  
MacBookPro without luck. I'm pretty sure the soas-boot.iso boot CD was  
working well, but after the Fedora boot loader and some hopeful  
looking USB key flickering, it just sits there with a black screen,  
and eventually I had to just hard power off.

USB (2Gb) key was built in Fedora-10 following instructions as per:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux

The one item I did notice is that the USB key's I have available both  
ship as FAT32 format (I'm reluctant to reformat). Does the soas- 
boot.iso boot a FAT32 stick for anybody else?

Regards,
--Gary

P.S. The Soas2-200904161412.iso boots fine in VirtualBox, though I  
know of no way of making VirtualBox boot from USB to test the stick  
image directly (just CD/HD/network/iso).

> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Dave Bauer <dave.bauer at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho  
> <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I've been trying to get the SugarLabs usb stick, Walter so kindly  
> sent, to boot on my MacBook.  I can get it to recognize the stick  
> but when I try to boot from it, following the instructions from  
> Apple Tech Support, it goes instead into OSX.  The stick shows as a  
> third drive on my desktop and I can open it and see that the files  
> are there.  The "read me" file comes up blank.
>
> I think someone mentioned having to use something they may have  
> called a "virtual box" to get it to boot on the Mac.  I hope someone  
> can fill me in on how to do this.  I want to be able to show it at  
> the LAUSD InfoTech event at the LA Convention Center this Saturday.   
> So, I do still have some time to work out the kinks.
>
> The Mac I am using is an Intel based MacBook so this should work.  I  
> just need to have the instructions!
>
> Hi, You might be able to boot using the boot helper CD. http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas-boot.iso
> Hold down 'c' when booting to boot off the CD and it should  
> recognize the USB stick and continue booting from there.
>
> If that doesn't work you can try the VirtualBox instructions here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Caryl
>
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