[Sugar-devel] Unable to create usb stick on ubuntu 8.10

[Torello Querci]

Il giorno gio, 26/03/2009 alle 11.17 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso ha scritto:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:12, Elena of Valhalla
> <elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Torello Querci <torello at torosoft.com> wrote:
> >> I try to create usb stick using soas image soas2_200903251017.iso
> >> All the step seems to run correctly but when I try to insert the stick
> >> in the usb to boot a got a messate about syslink and after a white
> >> screen with no possibility to boot.
> >>
> >> The stick is created on a ubuntu 8.10 distro.
> >
> > I'm having the same problem with kubuntu 8.04 hardy and it seems to be
> > an issue with syslinux
> >
> > one workaround is to edit cf/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and change the line::
> >
> >   default vesamenu.c32
> >
> > to::
> >
> >   default linux0
> >
> > near the beginning of the file; you lose the graphical boot choice
> > screen, but at least the stick works.
> 
> That's a very cool trick!

> > do you know what versions of syslinux are on your ubuntu and on the
> > fedora machine that worked?
> 
> I had the same problem on a Ubuntu 8.10 machine and I think that Simon
> also had the same issue on Fedora 10.
> 
> I was able to get the graphical boot working by manually building
> syslinux 3.73 (sources from upstream).
> 
> Maybe we should disable graphical booting if syslinux < 3.73 is present?
> 

Now works, the syslinux version number is 3.63 so I suppose that your suggestion is good to able more users to use soas
if they have a not updated version of syslinux.

Thanks
Torello Querci