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===Suggestion: Using boot_helper_disk_with_blueberry_usb_on_intel_mac (may fix bugs listed below)===

===Suggestion: Using boot_helper_disk_with_blueberry_usb_on_intel_mac (may fix bugs listed below)===

'''Link:'''[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions#Using_boot_helper_disk_with_blueberry_usb_on_intel_mac]

'''Link:'''[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions#Using_boot_helper_disk_with_blueberry_usb_on_intel_mac]

==== Mac Boot Bugs ====

 

''The boot sequence does not work properly due to minor bugs. Follow these workarounds to boot an intel Mac.''<br>''Note: to the child it is named SUGAR.  But the stick they take home is named FEDORA.''<!-- How do you file style bugs?  

 

==== Mac Bugs ====

''The boot sequence does not work properly due to minor bugs. Follow these workarounds to boot an intel Mac''<br>''Note: to the child it is named SUGAR.  But the stick they take home is named FEDORA.''<!-- How do you file style bugs?  

     bugs.sugarlabs.org will take task and enhancement requests in addition to defect reports.

     bugs.sugarlabs.org will take task and enhancement requests in addition to defect reports.

Forcing users to rename their USB sticks something esoteric like FEDORA is just wrong -->

Forcing users to rename their USB sticks something esoteric like FEDORA is just wrong -->

 

 

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*BootHelperCD cannot boot Mac without typing secret code into difficult to read window:<br> ''See [[#Boot Helper | Boot Helper ]]... "If your boot hangs..." for complete details''

*BootHelperCD cannot boot Mac without typing secret code into difficult to read window:<br> ''for complete details [[ Talk:SoaS_Blueberry_Instructions#Using_boot_helper_disk_with_blueberry_usb_on_intel_mac | click here ]]''

<!--See the end of this discussion, http://answers.edge.launchpad.net/soas/+question/95622.  It provides a way to edit the boot kernel arguments to boot on a Mac.  You may be able to advance the instructions from there. -->

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** interrupt the boot sequence

** press the tab key to interrupt the boot sequence.

** append selinux=0 to the kernel's list of boot parameters.

** append selinux=0 to the kernel's list of boot parameters.

** press return or enter to continue the boot process.

** press return or enter to continue the boot process.

  Submit bugs to request a different flavor of boot helper CD  that boots Mac automatically, without typing selinux=0<!-- and removes the countdown, Macs innately have the option key interrupt, the mouse down interrupt and the power button interrupt to handle this boot time issue.-->

  Submit bugs to request a different flavor of boot helper CD  that boots Mac automatically, without typing selinux=0<!-- and removes the countdown, Macs innately have the option key interrupt, the mouse down interrupt and the power button interrupt to handle this boot time issue.-->

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*BootHelperCD will not boot sticks created by a Mac.

*BootHelperCD will not boot sticks created by a Mac:

** BootHelperCD can only boot sticks named FEDORA.

** BootHelperCD can only boot sticks named FEDORA.

** Image-writer-mac writes the name blueberry-2-soas onto the stick.

** Image-writer-mac writes the name blueberry-2-soas onto the stick.

  This is a showstopper.<br>You cannot boot without hacking the USB stick name.<br>Use windows instructions to create Sugar on a Stick, named FEDORA, with persistent overlay.

  This is a showstopper.<br>You cannot boot without hacking the USB stick name.<br>Use windows instructions to create Sugar on a Stick, named FEDORA, with persistent overlay.

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*Sugar on a Stick is READ-ONLY

*Sugar on a Stick is READ-ONLY when created by a Mac:

**Nothing is saved between reboots. Sugar asks for your name and colors each boot.

**Nothing is saved between reboots. Sugar asks for your name and colors each boot.

**image-writer-mac does not create a persistent overlay file.

**image-writer-mac does not create a persistent overlay file.