[Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[David Leeming]

OK, thanks all.

Neither of my machines will start up direct from the flash drive.

I tried the below, but I don't get any GRUB screen. It just goes through the
"XO" start up screen with the circle of dots and then sticks at about "11
o'clock". On pressing ESC all I see is the error messages as given in my
first mail.

What do people recommend, I need to demo this in Tuvalu next week, should I
try the SOAS 3 or SOAS 1 "Strawberry"? I will download it overnight and try
tomorrow.

David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link 
http://www.leeming-consulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Wade Brainerd [mailto:wadetb at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 4:05 a.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

Hi David,

Did you try adding 'selinux=0' to the kernel boot parameters?  SoaS
Blueberry expects selinux to be disabled, so it sounds like the image
you're using was created incorrectly.

1. When first booting, press a key when it prompts you to.
2. You should see a 'GNU GRUB' screen.  Press the e key.
3. Press the down arrow once to highlight the kernel line.
4. Press the e key.
5. Press the End key, then type " selinux=0" without the quotes.  That
is, <space>selinux<equals>0.
6. Press enter.
7. Press the b key.
8. The system should now boot.

-Wade

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:21 AM, 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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