[Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Jim Simmons]

Tomeu and David,

I experienced exactly the same problem with the Blueberry Boot Helper
CD that Dave has.  The message is exactly the same.  I reported it at
bugs.sugarlabs.org.  I would be surprised if the problem was an
incomplete download.

I have had good success booting Blueberry directly from the USB, but
only a couple of the computers I own can do it.

I was able to boot Strawberry using its helper CD, and I can also boot
the Fedora 12 Live CD with no problem.

James Simmons

> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:12:58 +0100
> From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems
> To: David Leeming <david at leeming-consulting.com>
> Cc: Sugar on a Stick List <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,   Sugar-devel
>        <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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>
> Hi David,
>
> the most practical way of making sure that your download isn't
> corrupted is to verify the checksum:
>
> http://techcityinc.com/2009/02/06/calculate-md5-and-sha1-on-windows/
>
> The SHA-1 checksum of the file should be the one in this file:
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/SHA1SUM
>
> I think that LiveUSB Creator checks it for you.
>
> I'm cc'ing this email to the soas mailing list in case they can be of more help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:21, David Leeming
> <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am trying out SOAS for the first time, for a workshop related to an OLPC
>> deployment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately I can?t get it to run on either of two laptops on which I
>> tested. I followed the instructions using LiveUSB Creator, with a previously
>> downloaded copy of the SOAS-2-Bueberry iso. The flash drive was 2GB
>> capacity, previously reformatted and I used 505MB of persistent storage.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using Windows Vista and tested it on that and also a machine running
>> W7. Both required the boot helper but started up OK with the start up screen
>> with the circle of dots forming clockwise around the X. But before the
>> circle of dots completes, it hangs and on pressing the ESC key I see the
>> following:
>>
>>
>>
>> /sbin/dmsquash-live-root:166: grep not found
>>
>> dracut warning: machine in enforcing mode and cannot execute load_policy
>>
>> dracut warning: to disable selinux, add selinux=0 to the kernel command line
>>
>> dracut warning: not continuing
>>
>>
>>
>> I reproduced this behaviour with another flash drive, so I doubt that is the
>> problem. As stated, same behaviour with two very different laptop computers
>> (both ASUS, one an F3SC laptop, one a 1005HA netbook).
>>
>>
>>
>> Could it be an incomplete download? Using Windows Explorer (right
>> click/properties) on the downloaded iso file it shows as 589 MB (617,611,264
>> bytes). Can anyone verify that is OK? However, it succeeds with the LiveUSB
>> Creator and does start up initially.
>>
>>
>>
>> That is not so easy for me to test as in the Solomons it can be an overnight
>> job to download 600MB, and there are often outages.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Leeming
>>
>> Solomon Islands