On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:33:22AM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > 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 > On this occasion, I won't trim this - I did not expect these particular answers. We are not mind readers!
After reading that information, I looked at your original post - the kernel failed to mount the stick. I now think that something in your desktop environment is telling the kernel to automount any USB stick (or disk) which appears. But I do not know what DE you are using, and I regard DEs which think they might know what I want to do with a stick or disk as something to avoid. To clarify that: if I add a USB device which appears as a drive, and it is not a construct of my printer (really! it loads the usb-storage module), I might want to format or partition it, or I might want to mount it and copy files. If I added two drives, any system which thinks it knows *where* I want to mount them is likely to be wrong more often than right. If I cared, I would also ask why two built-in disks, plus an external drive, makes the added stick appear at /dev/sde instead of /dev/sdd. But I don't, and your post is contradictory (booted from internal disk, but also booted from eUSB). So, I suggest that you look at what sort of automounting your system does, and check the details of how that is configured. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
