<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br> > We have a bunch of switchblade-style 'I love my XO" USB sticks, which I<br> > converted to SoaS Blueberry using USB Creator on Windows. The sticks refuse<br> > to boot. All I get is boot error. The sticks were originally FAT 16, so I<br> > tried reformatting these with FAT 32, but still no luck. Any clues?<br> <br> </div>One thing to test would be to see if you can boot a standard Fedora 12<br> image, which is also available on the LiveUSB Creator on Windows. If<br> Fedora 12 image boots, then the problem is probably with the SoaS<br> image. </blockquote><div><br>OK. I'll try F12. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If it doesn't boot, the problem is probably with either the<br> sticks, the formating, or the hardware you are testing on. (What<br> hardware are you testing on? </blockquote><div><br>Thinkpad X300. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Have you successfully booted another<br> LiveUSB on that hardware?)<br> <br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, SoaS on a Sandisk using the same image booted on the same thinkpad, but two ilxo 2 GB stick did not. I get "boot error" <br><br>cheers,<br>Sameer<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> regards.<br> <br> -walter<br> <div class="im"><br> > cheers,<br> > Sameer<br> > --<br> > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br> > Associate Professor, Information Systems<br> > Director, Center for Business Solutions<br> > San Francisco State University<br> > <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br> > <a href="http://cbs.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://cbs.sfsu.edu/</a><br> > <a href="http://is.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://is.sfsu.edu/</a><br> ><br> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _______________________________________________<br> > SoaS mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a><br> ><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div><font color="#888888">--<br> Walter Bender<br> Sugar Labs<br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br>