Dave, As I said 'it's on the list'. That means we need to look at it. It shouldn't take too much, but it hasn't been a priority for us. (meaning we don't know exactly how much time).
Darrick On 03/24/2010 10:50 AM, Thczv F. Thczv wrote: > I'm no linux expert, but I was hoping to boot and run Astlinux > entirely from an external usb flash drive. How difficult is it to > make that work? > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Darrick Hartman > <dhart...@djhsolutions.com> wrote: >> None of the current released images will boot from an external usb >> drive. You can boot a CDROM iso >> >> We're also aware that the 'astinstall' function is not working from the >> ISO. You can create a unionfs storage partition, properly labeled, and >> it will be detected by the bootable iso image. >> >> We have these as items on the list, but right now it's a long list. >> >> Darrick >> >> On 03/23/2010 10:09 PM, Jay D. Allen wrote: >>> Well the kernel can load, and will boot via kexec. Its the initrd thats >>> not loading. >>> >>> Jay Allen >>> F2 Inc >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Thczv F. Thczv"<thczv.th...@gmail.com> >>> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:16:22 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen >>> >>> Did you learn anything about this problem? I am trying to boot 0.7.0 >>> from a flash drive on a fairly standard computer (a Dell X1 laptop). >>> But it fails with this same error. >>> >>> Any idea why it does this? >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jay D. Allen<j...@f2it.com> wrote: >>>> Its the kexec that's failing. I choose a very generic Xen environment and >>>> then try and load the 0.7.0 stock or beta. Same issue. Boots, copies >>>> kernel and initrd, but kexec fails with "Invalid memory ..." >>>> >>>> Jay >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Darrick Hartman"<dhart...@djhsolutions.com> >>>> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:45:05 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen >>>> >>>> On 03/14/2010 03:11 AM, Jay D. Allen wrote: >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone currently run AstLinux under Xen? I've tried it couple >>>>> of ways, but it fails at the kexec stage with "Invalid memory..." Sound >>>>> familiar to you? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Jay >>>> >>>> Jay, >>>> >>>> I've successfully used VirtualBox and VMware, but have not tried Xen. >>>> Sorry I couldn't be of more help. If you do figure out how to do this, >>>> we would accept a howto on the wiki page. >>>> > -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
