Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-08-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti 
El Sat, 29-08-2009 a las 10:25 -0400, Luke Faraone escribió:


 
 Well, the USB format idea was left unimplemented as we (I) couldn't
 get it working, but we should probably take a look at makebootfat to
 achieve the same goals.

Or just use parted instead of fdisk to wipe the MBR and create it from
scratch.  It does the right thing on the USB sticks I tried.


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-08-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin 

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:


Also, the bootloader Gujin contains a stripped-down driver for ext4 so 
might be interesting for a fast-booting USB setup: 
http://gujin.sourceforge.net/




FWIW, Syslinux 4.00-preX supports ext4.

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-08-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin 

Bernie Innocenti wrote:

El Sat, 29-08-2009 a las 10:25 -0400, Luke Faraone escribió:



Well, the USB format idea was left unimplemented as we (I) couldn't
get it working, but we should probably take a look at makebootfat to
achieve the same goals.


Or just use parted instead of fdisk to wipe the MBR and create it from
scratch.  It does the right thing on the USB sticks I tried.



Note that the Syslinux tool mkdiskimage can be used to create disk 
images (or disk) with arbitrary geometry.


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

2009-06-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin 
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

 Also look for how you have configured your BIOS... some Award BIOSes
 have USB-ZIP, USB-HDD, USB-FDD configurations; you generally want USB-HDD.
 
 In my (older non-Sugar) experience, USB-HDD is best, then USB-ZIP, and 
 if none of those options are available then pick USB-FDD (which is then 
 most likely names something else).
 

This is absolutely the order of preference.

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