[Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

[Sean DALY]

By the way, for the first batch of 100 branded Sugar Labs USb sticks I
was careful to order a model with LED activity indicator... our usage
procedure will say e.g. "wait until the blue light stops flickering"


2009/3/24 Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com>:
> Unless there is a way to make SOAS2 reliable in the face of hasty insertion
> and deletion, I don't think it will work very well in a classroom setting.
> It shouldn't be the case that the stick becomes unbootable.  Can a root
> partition on the stick be made read only?
>
> 2009/3/23 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
>>
>> Here is what happened.
>>
>> I had SoaS2 on running a desktop.
>> I told it to restart
>> When I thought it was done I pulled out the SoaS2 (maybe a bit early)
>>
>> Next on my laptop
>> I had tried to boot from a SoaS1 stick and gottent the /dev/boot error.
>> I took out the SoaS1
>> I put in SoaS2
>> I turned off and on the computer.
>> Now its booting from Windows not the USB.
>>
>> The SoaS2 that had booted on the same computer twice before.
>>
>> Somehow I broke the SoaS2 stick. I know I did a number of things not in
>> the best order but is there a way to make things more robust? Is there a way
>> to fix the SoaS2 stick or do I have to reflash it?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
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