[Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

[Sean DALY]

I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics acceleration.
Sean


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware
> accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS
> worked, though.
>
> I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well.
>
> 2009/5/29 Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>:
>> On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot
>> methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted
>> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704&page=77) a "fat" .EFI
>> boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu
>> has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages#Determine%20your%20model%20and%20hardware%20revision
>>
>> There are other possibilities too, such as:
>> http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/booting/efiboot
>>
>> And, GRUB info for booting Linux on Mac:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnEFI also
>> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook
>>
>>
>> To my mind, it's worth investigating these solutions (based on a
>> clickable icon OSX bash script on the SoaS USB stick, containing the
>> bless command but requiring admin rights) since the result will be
>> very easy to use and won't touch the hard disk.
>>
>> Sean
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>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
>>>> 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what
>>>>>> you are trying to accomplish?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot.  the use case is
>>>>> here:
>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Critical_Path_Technical_Issues
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's an accurate description of the goals for this project.
>>>>
>>>> An installable boot helper would provide functionality not avaliable in a
>>>> normal boot-helper ISO, namely increasing boot time (time between a student
>>>> inserting a SoaS stick and getting up and running) in addition to less
>>>> down-time in between switches (as the machine would be able switch to
>>>> another user/SoaS stick without rebooting).
>>>>
>>>> It would also be trivial to enable features such as on-server backups, live
>>>> SoaS upgrades and repairs, and centralized administration by the IT staff.
>>>>
>>>> The boot-helper is related to a new installer method for this reason: our
>>>> current method of formatting and installing SoaS on USB sticks cannot be
>>>> read by the boot-helper. LVM snapshots are difficult to read outside of the
>>>> context (in this case the kernel used in SoaS) in which they were created.
>>>> Therefore, I suggested that we simply have raw EXT3/whatever on the flash
>>>> drive, and mount them directly rather than using LVM.
>>>
>>> Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first
>>> results from this project?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Luke Faraone
>>>> http://luke.faraone.cc
>>>>
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