[OLPC-AU] Sugar on a Stick not working

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Mon Aug 30 09:26:48 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:49 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> Afternoon all. Has anyone come across a situation where SoaS was
> working well, (Toshiba A100, Windows 7 Home Premium normally) and then
> will no longer boot into SoaS?  All correct BIOS setups for Boot are
> there. Info says that boot loader cannot be found.  Under W7, USB
> stick (green one from from Cairns) checks out and works well as a FAT
> 32 disk.
> 

How much free space is on the drive? Can you check if the partition is
still set as boot-able with fdisk? Maybe W7 (or some AV software) may of
disabled the usbkey's boot sector thinking it was some kind of virus
when accessed under W7?

Jerry
 



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