[IAEP] SoaS on Mac

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 23.04.2009, at 08:39, Caryl Bigenho wrote:

> Hello Again,
>
> Still trying to get the SoaS going on the MacBook.  This time I went  
> back to trying the Stick and helper CD.  I booted to the CD first,  
> then inserted the usb stick. It went through the loading of Fedora  
> all right (like before), then when I chose "boot" from the menu, it  
> went into a terminal mode and gave me this message:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> WARNING: Cannot fine root file system!
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the  
> boot sequence
>
> bash: no job control in this shell
>
> bash-4.o#
>
>
> I think if I knew a little Python I could solve this.  It seems to  
> want me to tell it to go boot the SoaS from the USB stick, but I  
> don't know how to do it.   Can someone tell me how and what to do to  
> go on from here? How do I "exit this shell"?  How do I "Create  
> symlink/dev/root"?

I tried this today.

On my MacBook Pro the CD did not boot. It's detected as a blank, even  
though I burned it on the very same machine.

On a MacMini the same CD booted fine. It loaded the kernel and initrd  
from USB, then I got the exact same error message Caryl got.

I made the Stick in Fedora 10 using these instructions:

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

These instructions did not mention renaming the stick. Is it perhaps  
still needed? I remember having seen someone mention the stick had to  
have a specific name.

How does it try to find the root file system?

- Bert -


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