[IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:15, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think if you have rEFIt, you don't need the helper.

The Fedora live image stuff has several references to EFI, we should
ask them what support have macs with their live offerings.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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