Talk:Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick

dd img Boot Tests in MacBook Pro i7

12/16/2011 satellit_ 4-GB firefly USB formatted to fat 16 formatted usb (not lba) in gparted prior to dd write

1-)Soas_Coconuts.img

root terminal# dd if=Soas_Coconuts.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M 956+0 records in 956+0 records out 2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 414.457 s, 4.8 MB/s

• Boots my Mac Pro as EFI but fails:

Drops to a debug shell can's access tty: job control turned off dracut:/#

2-)soas-v6-i686.img http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v6-Pineapple-USB_.img

root terminal# dd if=soas-v6-i686.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M 954+0 records in 954+0 records out 2000683008 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 490.293 s, 4.1 MB/s

• No EFI USB boot shown on Mac

Note: this should be x68-64 version for EFI, I think.

• Boots on ACER ASPIR ONE N450 fine

3-)http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-15-1-EFI.img

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_1_GB_EFI_Boot_.28MAC.29_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img

• Boots Fine