[Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[Caroline Meeks]

I second what Jim says. I've had a lot of trouble booting from the boot
helper with Blueberry.

Bernie looked at this at the GPA and found a bug in Fedora related to video
drivers.  Bernie, was this bug reported? Can you help David see if he is
having the same problem we saw at GPA?

Thanks,
Caroline
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> > Message-ID:
> >        <242851611001110112w63906d7rc8ca88b140919521 at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>  >
> > 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
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