[Sugar-devel] Unable to create usb stick on ubuntu 8.10

[Torello Querci]

Il giorno gio, 26/03/2009 alle 13.04 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso ha scritto:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:54, Torello Querci <torello at torosoft.com> wrote:
> > Il giorno gio, 26/03/2009 alle 11.17 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso ha scritto:
> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:12, Elena of Valhalla
> >> <elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Torello Querci <torello at torosoft.com> wrote:
> >> >> I try to create usb stick using soas image soas2_200903251017.iso
> >> >> All the step seems to run correctly but when I try to insert the stick
> >> >> in the usb to boot a got a messate about syslink and after a white
> >> >> screen with no possibility to boot.
> >> >>
> >> >> The stick is created on a ubuntu 8.10 distro.
> >> >
> >> > I'm having the same problem with kubuntu 8.04 hardy and it seems to be
> >> > an issue with syslinux
> >> >
> >> > one workaround is to edit cf/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and change the line::
> >> >
> >> >   default vesamenu.c32
> >> >
> >> > to::
> >> >
> >> >   default linux0
> >> >
> >> > near the beginning of the file; you lose the graphical boot choice
> >> > screen, but at least the stick works.
> >>
> >> That's a very cool trick!
> >>
> >> > do you know what versions of syslinux are on your ubuntu and on the
> >> > fedora machine that worked?
> >>
> >> I had the same problem on a Ubuntu 8.10 machine and I think that Simon
> >> also had the same issue on Fedora 10.
> >>
> >> I was able to get the graphical boot working by manually building
> >> syslinux 3.73 (sources from upstream).
> >>
> >> Maybe we should disable graphical booting if syslinux < 3.73 is present?
> >>
> > Tomeu, about time need to make this changes?
> >
> > I suppose that is better if we change the wiki page to add this
> > trick ....
> 
> Yes, perhaps it's better to update the wiki now. We can work with
> upstream to make that step automatically in the livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
> tool.
> 
> Can you take care of that?
> 
Just do it :)

Regards
Torello