<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thomas C Gilliard wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4CCE42DF.2020202@bendbroadband.com" type="cite"> Matt Wronkiewicz wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Thomas C Gilliard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com"><satellit@bendbroadband.com></a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite">You don't need a Mac to test it. You shouldn't need it for a Mac (you just need to use the 64 bit version of it) </blockquote> A MBR-partitioned USB stick will boot on an Intel Mac with an EFI firmware? The Wiki made it sound like that was not possible. I guess I should try it. </blockquote> That is what the Mac boot CD is supposed to do. Enable the Mac to boot from the CD then switch to the USB look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Apple_Mac_OS_X">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Apple_Mac_OS_X</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac</a> (The USB contains both a boot and an EFI boot folders) <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite">I am geting ready to do so. USB of Sugar-v4 and boot helper in CD drive. : ) (Diskless hp pavillion laptop Turion 64x2 with nivida) </blockquote> Is this the boot helper I posted earlier? It won't work with Sugar-v4, just v3 Mirabelle. I can rebuild it for v4 if you're interested in testing it. </blockquote> </blockquote> Matt: I purchased a New Apple MacBook Air today: After a little fiddling , I got your <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-3-boot-test.iso">http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-3-boot-test.iso</a> To work with a 2GB USB script installed soas-v3-Mirabelle USB I found that the USB booted but the graphics caused a very distorted/smeared image. After I did the folowing changes' it boots fine: Method: Take the Mirabelle USB and mount it in a Linux Box. Open the USB; edit the 4 files in it (attached) to match: Fedora/EFI/boot.conf Fedora/EFI//grub.conf Fedora/EFI/isolinux.cfg Fedora/syslinux/syslinux.cfg Put the mirabelle USB in the Apple Air USB port Load the soas-3-boot-test.cd in a External USB CD/DVD drive and connect it to the 2nd USB port on the Macbook Air Hold down the "C" key and press power button. release power button -It will make a bong sound- continue holding down the "C" key until you get a fedora blue boot screen from the Spinning CD. hit TAB and edit the boot line like the CD_boot Menu-changes.jpg show. edit out "quiet" and and add "nomodeset xdriver=vesa" Hit return and the USB will begin boot sequence. Disregard the ata:COMRESET failed (errno=-16)messages (repeats t least 3 times) Eventually the USB will Boot to F3 Ring. (Mirabelle_f3.jpg) I am sure that all 4 of the .cfg files do not need to be edited and saved on the USB, but It does boot the USB into Soas correctly. Next I have to buy a network adapter, the MacBook Air wireless is not recognized by Network Manager....Maybe I should have obtained a Macbook with a CD and network Cat5 installed. : / Congratulations; >Can you build a new soas-3-boot-test.iso with the changed boot line? Thanks again for a neat solution; Tom Gilliard satellit Bend Oregon <blockquote cite="mid:4CCE42DF.2020202@bendbroadband.com" type="cite">Please do make one, if it works with Soas-v4; you will be a Hero. I will gladly test it ( I have no Intel Mac however). One caveat is that f15 seems destined to use systemd ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html</a> ) and upstart for booting. : / It was experimented in early Soas f14 builds and proved much too buggy. NOTE: As a test. I did burn your soas-3-boot-test.iso to a CD and booted with it in a hp Laptop. It found and switched to my 2 GB Soas-v3-Mirabelle USB and sucessfully started it : ) Tom Gilliard satellit <blockquote type="cite">Matt _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>