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

[Sean DALY]

OK thanks Wade

If you can tell me just which image you have, I can try with that one.

Same behavior with the SD card in or out, and on the other XO with no
SD card at all.

Neither the SoaS-1 (March 5th), nor the SoaS-2 (March 21st) have a
'boot' directory, nor a '.fth' Forth script at all. If I stick one on,
will it boot?

I suspected this was the problem as I explored the sticks from the ok
prompt.... this is why we need some kind of integrity checker for a
"burned" stick, to check if anything is missing, or if the user has
monkeyed with files (Scout's honor I did not :-), or (say) the
timestamp of an x.org config file, etc.

thanks

Sean




On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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