Re: persistent option

2007-07-02 Thread Enrico Tassi
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:04:11PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: /var/log/casper.log (or /var/log/live.log) Here there are no timestamps... can't tell you if the failure in finding the device happens before the kernel discovers it. can It be that the usb device is discovered late? Yes, it

persistent option

2007-06-28 Thread Enrico Tassi
I'm trying to use the persistency feature and I succeded usgin qemu for executing the image and adding an hda virtual disk for persistence. What I'm failing doing is using a real USB device, booting the real computer from the live CD. I tried bot with casper (stable) and live-initramfs from

Re: persistent option

2007-06-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, does your computer BIOS support booting from a USB stick at all? Also, have you made sure that your partition (should be the first one on your USB stick of filesystem type 'vfat', normally seen as '/dev/sda1' by Linux) is marked as bootable? You can use fdisk to achieve this.

Re: persistent option

2007-06-28 Thread Enrico Tassi
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:42:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, does your computer BIOS support booting from a USB stick at all? Also, have you made sure that your partition (should be the first one on your USB stick of filesystem type 'vfat', normally seen as '/dev/sda1' by

Re: persistent option

2007-06-28 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle giovedì 28 giugno 2007, Enrico Tassi ha scritto: I tried the live CD with qemu, and I used -hda hand_made_vfat_image and it worked placin into it the cpio file created by casper-snapshot or live-snapshot. It worked perfectly. This should be working because it is one of the two snapshots