On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. The machine is using EFI ? And therefore, you put the flash > drive in, turn on, and let it boot ? If so, getting a linux error > implies that your bootloader, whatever it is, has found a linux > kernel. It's old Intel motherboard, ordinary AMI BIOS, no EFI. I boot from internal disk while USB stick is attached. > 2. Is it a PC or a mac ? When people have talked about EFI in the > last year, it has turned out that the details differ. PC, Intel mobo > 3. What bootloader are you using, where is it, and how have you > defined what it ought to do (i.e. load the kernel) ? extlinux on a separate partition 2, while root on partition 3 > I'm wondering if some parameter or command is wrong or missing - > I would not expect the kernel to look at the first partition, Linux boots perfectly fine, but after it was booted it noticed USB stick and start probing it. Unfortunately it tries to mount unformatted partition 1 on USB stick as NTFS (note - while booted from internal disk). > Did you, perhaps, build that kernel at /dev/sde1 ? I'm booting from eUSB disk while 2 SATA drives are connected, thus boot device is /dev/sde BR Alexey -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
