<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Sascha Silbe wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:<br>
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The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older<br>
computers<br>
at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still work<br>
fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron.<br>
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The older ones are not XOs, right?<br>
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Warning: cannot find root file system<br>
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Can you append "rootwait" (without the quotes) to the kernel parameters,<br>
please?<br>
I hope Sebastian can give specific instructions how to do this<br>
interactively for SoaS.<br>
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I'll try to! :)<br>
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When you boot SoaS, you'll see a blue screen for one second - press <escape> there quickly - you'll be presented a menu saying in its first entry "boot". Press <tabulator> there.<br>
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You can now modify the kernel arguments (add rootwait) and boot by pressing <enter> then. This will add it only once, though. Usually, one needs to edit /etc/grub.conf to makesuch a change persistent, but I seem to recall that this didn't work in live images lately...</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>When I tried this (press <escape> at the one second blue screen) on the machines which failed to boot properly they did not exit to the menu screen but instead a message came up:</div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
aborted<br>boot:</blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>I then tried tab anyway and got:</div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">linux0 check0 local</blockquote>
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