12-10 fails to boot

[mikeyphi]

Malkav - I checked my 8Gb card, it shows 7.4 Gb used after format:
39.19 Mb on fat32
6.78 Gb on ext3
486.34 Mb for swap
15.69 Mb unallocated

as I said before I managed to install using the Linux method after failing with the TB method.

[Malkav]

Huh. Sounds like an issue with the Windows installation method then. Have to virtualize a linux distro and try it that way, see if it works.

[EdbO]

I can make it a little more strange

I removed the SD-card many times to reinstall the system using Linux, because it wouldn't boot. So I became angry and removed the pcb to check if there maybe was a flaw in the hardware. Maybe a soldering was bad, but I found noting . So I connected the power and pressed the powerbutton. And believe it or not ... the system started!

So what caused it to boot? I held the board in my hand and my thumb was pressing the SD-card a little. Because of the little pressure the SD-card makes better contact with the board.

I have now folded a piece of paper, which is laying between the top-side of the SD-card and the top face of the holder, thick enough to remove the SD-card easily, but it creates enough pressure that I can boot the system without any problems! I have booted now 4 times into the os-selection to boot AI-os, Android or Ubuntu, and it works!

[alexandre]

Generally, using Windows XP is better than Windows Vista or 7. In any case, if you can use Linux, it's even better and should not fail.

[Malkav]

@EdbO - That is truly bizarre. Must be a problem with spacing in the SD card slot or something.

@alexandre - Never had any trouble using Win7 until the latest release. Maybe it's just the code voodoo at work.

[Randwulf]

I don't use Vista or 7. Is there a 'compatibility' tab under 'properties' you could try for the Windows Installer?

[Royce]

No dice. I've already run the updater.exe on Vista in compatibility mode for XP SP2 several times and I'm still getting kernel panic and graphics underflow errors. I think some serious work needs to be put into the updater program. Even before 2010-12.a, it would take several runs of the updater to get it to work. But now, it is just not working at all.

[Kai-ArneC]

Try some VMware to boot Linux and do it from inside there?

[ChooseOpen]

Sorry to hi-jack this post, but I wanted to chime in my "me too".

The Linux method under Ubuntu 10.10 resulted in the widely reported white-black screen.

[Malkav]

Oh, not at all, ChooseOpen, any input on the 12-10 issues are welcome. what you're saying would seem to make it a general 12-10 issue than windows in particular. Wish I had the time to do digging on it.