Opened 14 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#1799 closed enhancement (fixed)
Compact Flash SoaS?
| Reported by: | David Kergyl | Owned by: | tomeu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
| Component: | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | Version: | Unspecified |
| Severity: | Unspecified | Keywords: | Compact Flash boot CompactFlash |
| Cc: | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified | |
| Bug Status: | Unconfirmed |
Description
I have an old IBM 2675 Transnote that can't boot from USB but would boot from a Compact Flash memory card. I tried using Fedora LiveUSB Creator on a 1Gb CF card. The boot starts but I receive the following errors:
When the loading screen bars march across the screen, I see "Generic 12" instead of "SoaS 1". Then:
"No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever."
Could someone put together a SoaS image for a CF card without too much difficulty?
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by FGrose
- Component changed from sugar to SoaS
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by pbrobinson
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
You might be better in this situation writing the image to a CD booting the live image using the CD and then running "liveinst" to install the CD image onto the compact flash. It takes a bit longer but the experience will be better and likely faster.
I would suggest using SoaS v4 available here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
A compact flash memory card formatted as a bootable disc should behave just as a USB flash memory disc.
The SoaS LiveOS image is not media specific.
Try using the livecd-iso-to-disk script with the --reset-mbr option.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation