[IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso Snapshot

[James Simmons]

Sebastian,

I used the PLOP boot diskette, which allows you to boot off a USB drive 
even if the BIOS doesn't support doing that.  This was with the latest 
snapshot.  It never occurred to me to try it with any of the Betas.  I 
would expect that if you booted off the USB drive directly you'd have 
the same result.  I don't have any computers that can do that, 
unfortunately.

James Simmons


Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> James Simmons wrote:
>> Another comment on SoaS snapshot:
>>
>> When I found myself without a Browse activity in the first stick I had a
>> notion to copy the Smolt text from Terminal to the clipboard, save the
>> text to the Journal, then copy that Journal entry to a second thumb
>> drive which I could then mount on a different computer to update the
>> Wiki with a link to my hardware profile.  I found that SoaS would not
>> recognize that I had inserted a second USB thumb drive and automatically
>> mount it.  It seems to me that this is something it should be able to 
>> do.
>>
>> James Simmons
>
> Er... that's interesting. Normally, SoaS mounted additional USB 
> drives. This was in the latest snapshot, right? Using a boot helper or 
> not?
>
> I guess we should really get a new boot helper soon, to narrow down 
> some issues. We need to find out what's causing which error here.
>
> --Sebastian
>
>> Caroline Meeks wrote:
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing!
>>>
>>> We do have a "Boot Helper" CD iso on the wiki page. I personally think
>>> we shoudl recommend that people start with that then see if they can
>>> change thier BIOS so we have more first time success.
>>
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