[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] USB testing required today if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Cameron,

I guess nothing wrong laptop usb BIOS, just familiarity how to setup
the boot sequences - plug'nplay BIOS.

Probably you can add Unetbootin in the wiki as well. I find it easy to
use and a lot advance features. You can even created you own "live
hard" in one of your drive partitions.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

BTW, you can also boot Live OS SD in laptops now.

Noli


On 8/16/10, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Noli and Daniel,
> I've updated the wiki with some of your tips here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB
>
> It would be great if you could add a "Trouble Shooting" heading
> underneath if you have extra information that you think is appropriate.
>
> On 15/08/10 16:15, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Ah, crazy that's totally it. The usb device must be in when I go the
>> BIOS settings, and a new option showed up in the Boot area to order the
>> Hard Drives.
>>
>> Removable Device != USB stick
>>
>> So strange, thanks for the hint. It works fine now.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 08/14/2010 11:06 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
>>
>>> My first bios settings for boot order failed, because I moved the
>>> "removable
>>> device" up in the boot menu order, but surprisingly this wasn't my USB
>>> stick.
>>> The USB stick was listed under hard drives option, which showed a "+" and
>>> contained a list of drives including the USB drive. I had to move it up
>>> to
>>> be booted before the main HDD. Then it worked.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/8/15 Alex Mandel<tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates
>>>>>> however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at
>>>>>> least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute
>>>>>> OSGeo-Live to all delegates on the well tested DVD version.
>>>>>>
>>>>> These laptops / desktops have faulty Windows BIOS. They need DSDT
>>>>> patching to boot Linux OS and Darwin OS (Mac OS X). Using IASL, you
>>>>> can decompile the BIOS i.e. dump DSDT.dsl. then patch it and compile.
>>>>> Use dsdt.aml to boot usb linux os.
>>>>>
>>>>> Top of the list for faulty BIOS is HP Pavillion laptops.
>>>>>
>>>>>   I got HP Pavillion DM3 which I have been patching inorder to triple
>>>>>
>>>> boot.
>>>>
>>>>> The solution to create various version of OSGeo Live USB for these
>>>>>
>>>> laptops.
>>>>
>>>>> 1. HP Pavillion
>>>>> 3. Dell
>>>>> 2. Asus
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, what are the brand of those computers which did not boot?
>>>>>
>>>>> I could help create these OSGeo Live USB to work properly with these
>>>>> laptops, if you are interested and provide the resources i.e. 4Gb /
>>>>> 8Gb USBes, OSGeo ISO and dsdt.aml from those not booting laptops. I
>>>>> will patch it.  I can pick these things in your Melbourne office, if
>>>>> you are interested.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> However, if we can get test results from enough people by first thing,
>>>>>> Monday 16 August, an OSGeo-Live USB will be created and given to VIPs.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Noli
>>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure that's 100% right. My Asus is failing to boot from usb, and
>>>> I do think it's a BIOS issue but it has nothing to do with the OS. The
>>>> laptop is a linux box only, it seems to just never try booting usb even
>>>> though it's in the list.
>>>>
>>>> Also making multiple versions of the usb sticks depending on the laptop
>>>> brand is unrealistic, if that's what it takes to make it work 95% of the
>>>> time or better we're going to have to stick to mostly DVDs for this
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info, I'll have to poke into that more.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
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