Fwd: [Contact] USR installed to USB external Hard Disk- boot errors?

[David Farning]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Thomas C Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> David;
>
> I have a hint why this occurs;

Thanks Thomas,

I forwarded this to the mailing list so the engineers could benefit
from your findings.

david

> I just did install of USR 804. Install went well and said completed. I hit
> reboot button and it shut down. The CD ejected before the writes completed.
> I got a screen of errors saying /dev/sr0 (CD) was not present,
>
> I had to power off computer as shutdown did complete. On power on I get same
> message seen with 10.04 LTS.
> Have to hit exit return to get out of shell.....
>
> The installer seems to eject the CD prematurely on reboot after install and
> not all info is written to HD.
>
> CD Boots correctly if not installing.
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satelit
>
> David Farning wrote:
>>
>> Manu can you assign this to someone?  It is the tip of the iceberg in
>> making it easier for users to test and install USR.  I think that it
>> is related to the fact that fun from usb did not work on my system.
>>
>> david
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Thomas C Gilliard <satellit at bendbroadband.com>
>> Date: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Contact] USR installed to USB external Hard Disk- boot
>> errors?
>> To: David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "ubuntu-sugarteam at lists.ubuntu.com >> Ubuntu SugarTeam"
>> <ubuntu-sugarteam at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>>
>> USR Results here look at :
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table#Activity_Test_Results
>>
>> Boot appears to be looking for a long numerical label on HD at boot:
>>
>> Alert! /dev/disk-by-uuid/423aafb0-6636-4390-8bbf-6b1e2a629f6b does not
>> exist. dropping to shell!
>>
>> BusyBox v1.13.3
>>
>>
>> It may be too long with the string from the external HD added to the
>> numerical label?
>>
>> Is there any way to switch boot so it looks the HD in /dev/sda format
>> instead?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit
>>
>>
>>
>> Note: Surf 115 as drag-drop install from 2nd USB makes it a complete
>> sugar install..
>>
>> Thanks for all of your work.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Farning wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM,  <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thomas Gilliard sent a message using the contact form at
>> http://activitycentral.org/contact.
>>
>> http://140.186.70.115/lastest-working/ (USR-i386-20100628.iso?)installed
>> to
>> USB external Hard Disk boot errors:
>> On Booting:
>> "Alert! /dev/disk-by-uid/ .....does not exist. Dropping to a shell.
>> Busybox ...shell:
>> (initramfs)
>>
>> One has to enter :exit"
>> and hit return to get boot to resume.....
>> Is this a Bug for a External USB not getting a recognized /dev/disk-by-uid
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> I had no idea how to fix this situation.  It seems to install on a
>> disk but not boot correctly....
>>
>> Any thoughts how to fix this?
>>
>> david
>>
>>
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