[IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

[Lucian Branescu]

I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper.


2009/4/22 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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