[Testing] No Luck With Live CD Any Ideas?

[Thomas C Gilliard]

On 01/17/2012 11:29 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
> Hi 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
>
>
Is the Trisquel 5 sugar .iso complete?

Try a new Download:
Link: 
http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/toast/iso/trisquel-sugar_5.0_i686-20111204.iso

I just Booted a trisquel-sugar_5.0_i686-20111204.iso CD I burned with 
Disk Utility last night in my MacBook Pro i7
-It works fine.

>     * *For A Mac Boot from this CD:*
>     * insert CD
>
>     Hold down the *Option* key as you press the *power button* and
>     hold it until a *CD icon* appears labeled *Windows*
>
>         This may take 10-30 Seconds to appear 
>         Use => arrow keys to select it 
>


Tom Gilliard
>
> 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 Tom Gilliard's great instructions:
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Introduction_to_the_Sugar_Interface
>
>
> I would be happy if any of the builds would work... even Strawberry!
>
>
> 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
>
>
> P.S. For my presentation of Sugar I plan to use Virtual Box. It isn't 
> installed and tested yet. Hope I don't have a problem.  I do have an 
> EFI usb version that Tom G sent me, but would probably have problems 
> getting it into the projector to show on the screen. Preferences will 
> disappear with the reboot (or maybe not?).
>
>
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