[Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

[Wade Brainerd]

Hey Sean,

FWIW I have successfully booted my XO-1 from SoaS-1 using an older image, I
haven't tried the latest.  I used LiveUSB Creator for Windows with a PATRIOT
2GB stick.

What you might be seeing is that you have a SD card with a bootable
partition on your XO.  I think that might take priority over booting from
USB.

You can boot manually from OFW.. something like

ok boot u:\boot\olpc.fth

should locate 'boot\olpc.fth' on the USB key and start it manually.

-Wade

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused here, is it possible or not at this
> time to boot an XO-1 from a SoaS image (as we claim on the wiki:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC)?
>
> if so, how? since the instructions for Option 1 on the wiki page are
> not working for me.
>
> I see there is a new SoaS-2 image in there, again, I don't think we
> should be recommending to G1G1 owners they use that one yet?
>
> As I say, I have doubts about the SoaS-1 and SoaS-2 sticks I am using,
> it appears the XO can't find anything to boot with on these sticks
> while my Acer Aspire One boots up with both (?)
>
> I suppose there's no way to boot manually from a stick from OFW?
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Dave Bauer <dave.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am having a more fundamental issue.
> >
> > 1) First I used liveusb-creator on windows with Soas1 and created the crc
> > and img files to install to the NAND. That doesn't work for me.
> >
> > 2) Next I tried technique one from Fedora 10 but the livecd-iso-to-disk
> does
> > not have the --xo options. It looks like those instructions use a newer
> > version of livecd-tools. Is this impossible from Fedora 10? What else
> should
> > I be using.
> >
> > Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Martin Dengler
> >> <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC
> >> >>
> >> >> I am late writing an article on this and I'm not getting anywhere
> >> >> because I can't boot either of my XOs from USB.
> >> >
> >> > I've had plenty of success booting from NAND and USB.>
> >> >
> >> >> * I see that most recent image is SoaS-2, is this what we want to
> >> >> recommend right now to G1G1 owners? Would a choice be better?
> >> >
> >> > SoaS-2 needs more testing and bugfixing IMHO.  We shouldn't recommend
> >> > it to G1G1 owners unless they want to be testers.
> >> >
> >> >> * I can't boot my XO which is at firmware Q2E18 but I am ready to try
> >> >> a later firmware such as Q2E28 or Q2E34
> >> >
> >> > I don't think this is a firmware issue.  I was booting off NAND with
> >> > Q2E19.
> >> >
> >> >> Sean
> >> >
> >> > Martin
> >> >
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> >
> > --
> > Dave Bauer
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