<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23.04.2009, at 08:39, Caryl Bigenho wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Hello Again,</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">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:</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">WARNING: Cannot fine root file system!</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">bash: no job control in this shell</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">bash-4.o#</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">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"? </div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I tried this today.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I made the Stick in Fedora 10 using these instructions:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>How does it try to find the root file system?</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>