Booting OLPC OS 12.1 from USB sticks and SD cards

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Sascha Silbe
<silbe at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> As I've had considerable trouble getting OLPC OS 12.1 to work on my XOs,
> I thought I'd share with everyone what I know to be broken so others
> don't fall into the same traps:
>
> |                  | XO-1                    | XO-1.5  | XO-1.75        |
> |------------------+-------------------------+---------+----------------|
> | USB stick        | working                 | working | boot broken    |
> | external SD card | boot and suspend broken | working | suspend broken |

I see 100% success on XO-1.5 :-)

Jokes aside, I don't think that booting from USB stick is actually
safe in the face of suspend/resume.

cheers,


m
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