On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > What worked for me in the end is the following: I don't use a initrd and I > partition the flash drive with GPT, format with ext2, and boot to an ext4 > partition on an mSATA SSD. I use Syslinux rather than Grub2 as it's lighter > and it's much easier (IMO) to set up. If it's of any help here is my > extlinux.conf:- > > /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf > PROMPT 1 > TIMEOUT 50 > DEFAULT xxx > LABEL xxx > LINUX /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.8-toi > APPEND root=PARTUUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx \ > vga=792 acpi_osi=linux acpi_backlight=legacy > hest_disable \ > iommu=soft rootfstype=ext4 rootdelay=1 > Hi Richard,
After struggling with grub, I've decided to try syslinux-6.02 with setup similar to yours: booting from usb stick with 512MB ext2 partition and ext4 root FS on another USB stick. I've got kernel panic - VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0). Some forums suggests initramfs. I think you could skip initramfs only if you're using SATA disks. I've added initramfs in syslinux config, but it was unable to find a device containing root fs and dropped to a shell... I wonder, since you have a working setup could you try to boot your box with root FS on USB stick? Regards, Alexey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
