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

[Martin Dengler]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:48:00PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
> I have been doing FAT16 exclusively until today, but (if i'm not
> confused) the latest SoaS-2 which image failed to boot my XOs when
> formatted FAT16 succeeded when formatted FAT32.
> 
> By the way when using the fedora liveusb-creator v3.6.3 (previous revs
> fail) on WinXP i found that formatting the stick immediately prior to
> "burning" it seemed to work better...

It's a lot better not to re-format *at all* USB sticks one gets if one
can help it:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/

Martin
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