Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search
m
dd img Boot Tests in MacBook Pro i7
Line 1: Line 1:  +
===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
12,355

edits

Navigation menu