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

[Wade Brainerd]

I believe only the most recent LiveUSB Creator programs will put an
'olpc.fth' on there for you.

Maybe the sticks were created with an older version?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>> >
>>> > --
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