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 Linux) > is marked as bootable? You can use fdisk to achieve this. > > Finally, do a 'syslinux /dev/sda1' from your root account to make sure it has > a correct MBR.
Sorry, I've been misunderstood. I'm booting from CD, and I want to achieve persistency trough a usb stick. 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. Then I tried with my real hardware. I booted from the CD, I created a new file one the desktop, issued live-snapshot, copied the cpio file on the usb stick, unmounted it and rebooted with the stick in. After the reboot the file I created was not on the desktop. I'll have users that can't format the usb stick with ext2 or relable it, but from the wiki I understood it is not necessary (and in fact, just putting the file there worked using qemu). How can I trace this problem? can It be that the usb device is "discovered" late? I'm pretty sure that during boot, the kernel prints something about usb device exactly at the beginning of the squash-fs loading (the operation that takes some time). Can it be a rece condition? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for the help. -- Enrico Tassi _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
