[Olpc-socal] No Luck With Live CD Any Ideas?

[Kenneth Wyrick]

The Sugar CD version that I use is:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/16/Spins/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-SoaS.iso

I've been working with the USB stick, it boots but has video problems. I
don't have a CD drive in my notebook and my other macs are powerpc. In
the worst case, we can put the image on a CD and have them download
virtualbox to run it
(
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Boot_Helper_CD.27s
) .

I'll keep working at a one step method though. If I can get a USB to
boot I should be able to do it with a CD as well. I followed the links
you gave me but haven't found a solution yet. They were talking two
years ago and barking up the wrong tree anyway. The problem is on the
Fedora side. Maybe one of the other distributions would work better.


On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 11:14 -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
> Hi olpc-SoCal folks,
>
>
> I have spent 2 days trying to make a bootable Live CD of SoaS for
> distribution at our booth at SCaLE 10X on Saturday.  I have had lots
> of problems. Supposedly this can be done on both PCs and Macs.  Do any
> of you have any experience with this sort of thing?
>
>
> I  have used the instructions on the Sugar Labs Wiki and even called
> Apple. They walked me through the process on Lion (OS 10.7.2) and
> things seemed to go well until I tried to boot it on my Mac.  I got
> this message:
>
>
> No root device found
>
> Boot has failed
>
> Sleeping forever
>
>
> I googled this error message and the problem seems to be very common
> with Fedora live CDs and live usbs. There doesn't seem to be a
> definitive answer.
>
>
> We need this for our booth Saturday! I have 100 blank CDs and sleeves
> arriving tomorrow and a disk burner to make the copies, but without a
> master we are "dead in the water."
>
>
> Here is a link to the instructions:
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Introduction_to_the_Sugar_Interface
>
>
> Scroll down and you will find all the builds listed under
> "Introduction to Sugar an a Stick."
>
>
> I was hoping that SoaS was finally ready to introduce to the general
> public via "Taste of Sugar" Live CDs that would work on both PCs and
> Intel Macs.  Of course, I have been hoping for this since Blueberry.
>  Any ideas?  Any solutions?  I have tried the Sugar Labs irc
> discussions and they gave me some suggestions, but so far, no luck!
>
>
> Caryl
>
>
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