[IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

[Lucian Branescu]

I have a macbook pro, I'll research this when I have some time.

2009/4/22 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
> 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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>>>>
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