Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 13:18, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Please file a ticket for this work so I can track and reference it in the > wiki and communications and such. > Will do. > Technical Question: Will this effect the code that is SoaS2 or is this > going to be a new USB creation tool that tak

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Luke, Please file a ticket for this work so I can track and reference it in the wiki and communications and such. Technical Question: Will this effect the code that is SoaS2 or is this going to be a new USB creation tool that takes the same code and puts it on the USB in a different way? Than

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:49, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Sounds very good, do we have a timeframe already for testing the first > results from this project? > Nothing definite as of yet. It's starting to look like it won't be ready for our F11/"SoaS v1" release, with an alpha coming out some time

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:47:05PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics >acceleration. Yeah, the URL I provided earlier in this thread deals with that issue. Not sure anyone found my URL rel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
I think one of those links discusses a switch to disable graphics acceleration. Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware > accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS > worked, though. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Lucian Branescu
Last time I tried, GRUB on EFI could not initialise hardware accelerated video drivers (my nvidia driver). GRUB on emulated BIOS worked, though. I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well. 2009/5/29 Sean DALY : > On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB b

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704&page=77) a "fat" .EFI boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:23, Luke Faraone wrote: > 2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> >>> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what >>> you are trying to accomplish? >> >> I think this is Ticket 598 to support th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-28 Thread Luke Faraone
2009/5/28 Caroline Meeks > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> Hi Luke, can you point us to a link where we can learn more about what >> you are trying to accomplish? >> > I think this is Ticket 598 to support the Gardner Pilot. the use case is > here: > http://wiki.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 16:49, Luke Faraone wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is turning into a larger project than I'd originally imagined. > > > > Since the current process of using LVM loop-mounted partitions prevents > us > > from mounting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 16:49, Luke Faraone wrote: > Hi all, > > This is turning into a larger project than I'd originally imagined. > > Since the current process of using LVM loop-mounted partitions prevents us > from mounting the SoaS filesystem outside of SoaS itself, we had to come up > with a