[Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

[David Leeming]

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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