[Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only "Sugar-desktop on a stick". from a F12-alpha live CD

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Douglas
McClendon<dmc.sugar at filteredperception.org> wrote:
> My name is Douglas McClendon, and I created the ZyX-LiveInstaller which appears
>  on track to becoming part of SoaS.  I also can accept praise and blame for
> the LiveUSB persistence feature I implemented for fedora a couple years back,

Good to have you on board! One thing we've found is that the overlay
fs trick is neat but somewhat fragile. In brief - unclean shutdowns
and "oops, I pulled out the stick" cases very often leave the USB
stick unbootable.

Of course, first step is fsck.vfat, but after that, we're completely
lost. Hints would be more than welcome. Ideally, something smarter can
be done during the boot itself or otherwise with a "repair" script.

cheers,



m
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