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===dd img Boot Tests in MacBook Pro i7===
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12/16/2011
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satellit_
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4-GB firefly USB formatted to fat 16 formatted usb (not lba) in gparted prior to dd write
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1-)Soas_Coconuts.img
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root terminal#
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dd if=Soas_Coconuts.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M
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956+0 records in
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956+0 records out
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2004877312 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 414.457 s, 4.8 MB/s
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*Boots my Mac Pro as EFI but fails:
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Drops to a debug shell
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can's access tty: job control turned off
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dracut:/#
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2-)soas-v6-i686.img
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http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_2GB_USB_Soas-v6-Pineapple-USB_.img
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root terminal#
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dd if=soas-v6-i686.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M
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954+0 records in
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954+0 records out
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2000683008 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 490.293 s, 4.1 MB/s
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*No EFI USB boot shown on Mac
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Note: this should be x68-64 version for EFI, I think.
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*Boots on ACER ASPIR ONE N450 fine
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3-)http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SoaS-15-1-EFI.img
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http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#dd_writable_1_GB_EFI_Boot_.28MAC.29_USB_Soas-v5-Coconut-USB_.img
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*Boots Fine
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