[IAEP] SoaS on Mac

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.04.2009, at 19:59, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> Do the sticks that are giving the /dev/root error fail on PCs also?

Don't know. I do not have a PC to try.

> I have sometimes seen this error on PCs too. I have no idea what the  
> root cause is.
>
> Other things to try.
> Does it fail the same way if the stick is made on windows with the  
> GUI?

Don't know. I don't have Windows either.

> Does it fail the same way if the stick is less then 2GB and you  
> format FAT not FAT32?

Don't know.

But: I just re-did the stick after renaming it FEDORA. If someone  
knows how to rename it in Linux, please add that to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux 
  (I did it in Mac OS).

And it now boots into Sugar!

I can see the start screen where I usually have to enter my name. The  
graphics are garbled though, presumably a problem with the X server. I  
can still move the mouse pointer but otherwise it's frozen, no  
keyboard input (not even ctrl-alt-f2) and no reaction to clicks:



Maybe Fedora does not like Mac mini hardware?

- Bert -

> Thanks
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
> > wrote:
> 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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