Re: [IAEP] SoaS on Mac

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.04.2009, at 19:59, Caroline Meeks wrote: Do the sticks that are giving the /dev/root error fail on PCs also? Don't know. I do not have a PC to try. I have sometimes seen this error on PCs too. I have no idea what the root cause is.  Other things to try. Does it fail the same way if the stick is made on windows with the GUI? Don't know. I don't have Windows either. Does it fail the same way if the stick is less then 2GB and you format FAT not FAT32? Don't know. But: I just re-did the stick after renaming it FEDORA. If someone knows how to rename it in Linux, please add that to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux (I did it in Mac OS). And it now boots into Sugar! I can see the start screen where I usually have to enter my name. The graphics are garbled though, presumably a problem with the X server. I can still move the mouse pointer but otherwise it's frozen, no keyboard input (not even ctrl-alt-f2) and no reaction to clicks: Maybe Fedora does not like Mac mini hardware? - Bert - Thanks On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> wrote: On 23.04.2009, at 08:39, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hello Again, Still trying to get the SoaS going on the MacBook.  This time I went back to trying the Stick and helper CD.  I booted to the CD first, then inserted the usb stick. It went through the loading of Fedora all right (like before), then when I chose "boot" from the menu, it went into a terminal mode and gave me this message: ------------------------------------------------------ WARNING: Cannot fine root file system! ------------------------------------------------------ Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence bash: no job control in this shell bash-4.o# I think if I knew a little Python I could solve this.  It seems to want me to tell it to go boot the SoaS from the USB stick, but I don't know how to do it.   Can someone tell me how and what to do to go on from here? How do I "exit this shell"?  How do I "Create symlink/dev/root"?  I tried this today. On my MacBook Pro the CD did not boot. It's detected as a blank, even though I burned it on the very same machine. On a MacMini the same CD booted fine. It loaded the kernel and initrd from USB, then I got the exact same error message Caryl got. I made the Stick in Fedora 10 using these instructions: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux These instructions did not mention renaming the stick. Is it perhaps still needed? I remember having seen someone mention the stick had to have a specific name. How does it try to find the root file system? - Bert - _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax

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