[IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Caroline,


I had an idea in the shower this am (some of my best ideas come while I am in the shower).  I think I may know what is going on with the Macs and live Sugar CDs and how it might be fixed.


According to Apple, when you boot with the option key down, the computer looks for all bootable items, eg the Mac HD, a Windows section (via Boot Camp), an external drive, a USB stick, or a CD in the Macs optical drive.  The item must contain all elements needed to be bootable.  Sooo....


The live CD as downloaded is missing something!  The question is, "What?" It may be the things that are on the boot-helper that is supposed to work with SoaS (and which didn't work for me...only the Virtual Box thing has worked so far).


So....Maybe someone can figure out what the missing elements are and add them to create a Mac version of the live CD.  Better still...maybe they can also figure out how to get it to work on the older non-intel Powerbooks running on the same OSX that the MacBooks use.  Make it OS dependent rather than hardware dependent.


Know any programming wizards who could take this on?


Caryl
From: cbigenho at hotmail.com
To: caroline at solutiongrove.com
CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: RE: [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:27:00 -0700








Hi Caroline,

I haven't gotten the cd to work yet.  Created 2 on the Mac. Neither works.  Wonder if making it on the Windows side would do it...will try to find out how to do that.  USB didn't work, even with the boot-helper.  I can, and have, run Sugar with the Virtual Box.  In fact, I keep it in my toolbar.

I have been busy with our family business the past few days.  I might have a little time tonight to try some other things. But houseguests come tomorrow afternoon and we leave for MT soon after they leave.  Won't have much time to play with this until I get back to MT.

Caryl

Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 10:22:55 +0200
Subject: Re: [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?
From: caroline at solutiongrove.com
To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org

Hi Caryl,

How is it going?

I know of two potentail issues.

1. Getting the right materials. At sugar camp we found that the USB created on the macbook was not working, only a PC created USB seemed to work. Plus you need both the USB and the boot helper.


2. some macbooks have a bug, when you boot everything goes fine through most of the boot and just when you are about to get to Sugar you get a mostly black screen with a sqiggle in the middle.

Where are you at? I especially need people with problem #2 because I don't have a test machine that shows it and its a show stopper for me for all work in Boston Public Schools because their macbooks have this issue.


Thanks,
Caroline

2009/5/20 Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>






Hi,



I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk.  I would like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook.  Does anyone know how to do this?




Thanks,
Caryl

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