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It has been shown that if you take a stick that is stuck at login and you copy over a fedora-overlay file from a working stick, the stick will boot again. Thus we are confident that the problem is corruption of the overlay file.

It has been shown that if you take a stick that is stuck at login and you copy over a fedora-overlay file from a working stick, the stick will boot again. Thus we are confident that the problem is corruption of the overlay file.

''Next Steps'' - Try some alternate file structures.

''Next Steps'' - Try some alternate file structures.

# Create a Fedora Full Install USB Stick, restart it a bunch of times and see if it does better.  How much space will the Fedora Full Install take?<br>So far its > 4GB http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware#Full_Install_with_F11_Net_install_CD_to_USB_Stick

# Create a Fedora Full Install USB Stick, restart it a bunch of times and see if it does better.  How much space will the Fedora Full Install take?<br>So far its > 4GB http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VMware#Full_Install_with_F11_Net_install_CD_to_USB_Stick

# Create an Open Suse USB Stick, restart it multiple times and see if it fails. How much space does it use?

# Create an Open Suse USB Stick, restart it multiple times and see if it fails. How much space does it use?[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux/openSUSE] Note the second partition for persistence

# Create Alternate ex3 File Structured, non-live, blueberry USB [http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz] (The resulting partition size on the USB can be resized with gparted if more storage is needed)[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.txt]

# Create Alternate ex3 File Structured, non-live, blueberry USB [http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/soas-2-blueberry-direct-2GB.img.xz] (The resulting partition size on the USB can be resized with gparted if more storage is needed)[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.txt]

There was a detailed discussion thread back in February at: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-February/022987.html

There was a detailed discussion thread back in February at: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-February/022987.html

If we understood how to win and we had our own stick creation activity perhaps we would have less failures.

If we understood how to win and we had our own stick creation activity perhaps we would have less failures.

*Look at How To Sugarize liveusb-creator:[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category_talk:Live_USB] for a working method to do this.

====Sticks are of poor quality====

====Sticks are of poor quality====

Yes they are, but its not at all clear to me that that correlates with the sticks that are failing.

Yes they are, but its not at all clear to me that that correlates with the sticks that are failing.

====There is a bug around restarting====

====There is a bug around restarting====

It is very common to fail after a restart, the system forgets its supposed to go to Sugar.  See ticket {{bug|1069]]

It is very common to fail after a restart, the system forgets its supposed to go to Sugar.  See ticket {{bug|1069}}