<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Jim Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Caroline, Sorry to confuse you with Caryl. Don't know why I did that. </blockquote><div> </div><div>No problem, </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I'll try making up a Fedora 12 CD and booting from it. As I understand it, your idea is simply to see if I can boot the Fedora Live CD, not that this would be an alternative way to boot SoaS Blueberry. I was able to boot SoaS Strawberry using a boot helper CD before, so I was surprised that the boot helper CD for Blueberry didn't work. </blockquote><div> </div><div>Yes, my goal is to better understand where the bug is, in Blueberry, the boot-helper or in F12.</div><div> </div> <div>Thanks </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> James Simmons <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > I think you meant this question for me, Caroline not Caryl, > You should be able to boot to Fedora from a CD made from the ISO here, > installation is optional I think. > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora</a> > You mentioned that you had two older machines that were not booting > Blueberry from the boothelper. I am curious whether they will boot a normal > Fedora 12 CD. > Thanks, > Caroline > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jim Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Caryl, >> >> Not sure what you mean by a straight Fedora 12 CD. The only Fedora 12 >> CD I'm familiar with runs F12 as a live CD system and gives you the >> option to install it to your hard disk by double-clicking an icon on >> the GNOME desktop. I don't see how that's going to help me boot from >> a USB or for that matter boot from the CD but use the USB the way the >> SoaS boot CD does. >> >> If you can clear this up I'd appreciate it. >> >> James Simmons >> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >> > Jim, >> > With the older machines that failed to boot, can you try a straight F12 >> > CD >> > and see if that works? >> > Thanks, >> > Caroline >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jim Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Caryl, >> >> >> >> If you do choose to use a Boot Helper CD make sure you test booting up >> >> from it before you go. When I tried Blueberry myself I found that I >> >> could boot off the USB itself just fine on a newer PC that supports >> >> booting directly from USB. However, I tried using two other older >> >> machines that needed a boot helper CD and neither of them was able to >> >> boot with the CD. The pretty boot art with the circle of dots seems >> >> to work OK until it is time to draw the final two dots and then it >> >> hangs. Note that I have used these machines with Strawberry and >> >> earlier SoaS and their corresponding boot CDs, so the evidence seems >> >> to point to the helper CD itself. >> >> >> >> I did report this on BugTraq: >> >> >> >> <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1626" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1626</a> >> >> >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> >> >> >> > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:47:25 -0800 >> >> > From: Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> >> >> > Subject: [IAEP] Need Live CD to take to Argentina >> >> > To: IAEP SugarLabs <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, Developers List >> >> > <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org</a>> >> >> > Message-ID: <SNT118-W15F3515BC439D32A18D0C5CC7B0@phx.gbl> >> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > H All i... >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Did this ever get implemented? If so where do I find it? Are there >> >> > any >> >> > special instructions I need to make and use the live CD? Can a usb >> >> > stick be >> >> > used for file storage? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.84/Sugar_LiveCD</a> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I would like to be able to take several copies with me to give to a >> >> > tech >> >> > person at an elementary school in Buenos Aires when I go there in >> >> > mid-January. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Caryl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Caroline Meeks >> > Solution Grove >> > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com >> > >> > 617-500-3488 - Office >> > 505-213-3268 - Fax >> > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline@SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax