[SoaS] [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac) dd writable USB.img files

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Try with a 2 GB USB, the sizes of 1 Gb sticks do vary (I used an old 
PN.Y 1 GB Stick) Yours could be slightly too small?

I have used this SoaS-15-1-EFI.img with 3 different brands and sizes of 
sticks after downloading a copy....
also look at:
  http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-faq/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-64-bit-macs-64-bit-efi-boot-in-64-bit-mode.html
Not all Mac's will work with an f16 EFI boot USB
My MacBook Pro is a i7 SandyBridge Model
My Smolt Mac 
Profile:http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_3947102b-ca8d-49f6-9a2d-d1ab91b74448

The stick does not run on my MacBook Air even after a nomodeset is added 
to the boot line.

Various Models of Mac's seem to be all different...: (

Cordially;

Tom Gilliard



On 11/24/2011 10:33 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Same thing. image-writer-mac is nothing but a wrapper around dd preventing accidental writes to a non-USB drive.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 24.11.2011, at 18:56, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>
>> Do it from Terminal. Not image-writer-mac !
>>
>> This is a 1 GB USB that was imaged with dd.
>>
>> Cordially
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> ===Write to a 1 GB USB device===
>> sudo su
>> Password
>> dd if=SoaS-15-1-EFI.img of=/dev/sd(x) bs=2M
>> 489+1 records in
>> 489+1 records out
>> 1026555904 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 216.577 s, 4.7 MB/s
>>
>> On 11/24/2011 08:14 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> On 23.11.2011, at 06:45, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Caryl;
>>>>
>>>> I know it requires using the terminal, but these 2 Soas-v5-Coconut .img files may be the easiest way to build a number of booting SoaS USB sticks for your presentation.
>>>> The instructions (actual screen shots of terminal of the writing to the USB's are included in these pages)
>>>>
>>>> The command in terminal can be repeated for each new USB that is inserted
>>>> Note that the EFI 1 GB USB is written in less than 4 minutes.
>>>>
>>>> 1-) PC
>>>>    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img
>>>>
>>>> 2-) Macbook EFI Boot:
>>>>    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_1_GB_EFI_Boot_.28MAC.29_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img
>>>>
>>>> Just be sure to enter "mount" in terminal to see the device name for your USB ie: /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sdc......   It is VERY IMPORTANT to have this set correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Cordailly;
>>>>
>>>> Tom Gilliard
>>>> satellit_ on #sugar IRC
>>> I tried the Mac EFI one. Used the image-writer-mac (*) script to dd it onto the stick.
>>>
>>> It booted my MacBook Pro, I saw the 10 second Fedora pre-boot count down, but after that I just got a blank screen.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>> (*) I have a minor update at
>>> 	http://git.sugarlabs.org/image-writer
>>> Could someone with SoaS write permissions replace this on the release server?
>>> 	http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> [converting this into an AppleScript would be the simplest to avoid having to use the Terminal]
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