I didn't see a motherboard brand mentioned. Gigabyte are famous for having bios that will not boot off of usb. The issue is partition size: <4gb will work, as I recall. I was about to trash my gigabyte mobo until I found this online somewhere.
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 8:29 PM, <tom-...@bgp.nu> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I think you are both right, the system just > won’t boot off USB. And in fact after thinking about it more I believe I > built the original system off a DVD drive. That was back when bootable USB > sticks were just getting started. I was thinking that installing onto a > disk mounted to the a 2800 motherboard wouldn’t work because the hardware > would be different, I’m sure it would work fine though now that I think > about it. However, I decide to take the even harder road and am just > replacing the older Atom with the newer 2800 board. I have it built now > and Linuxcnc run fine. I now have to re-drill the mounting holes as the > new board has to be oriented 90 degrees from the old one in order to > accommodate the cabling. Not too bad though. It is the classic case of > the new dishwasher dictating the need for a kitchen remodel… > > Thanks, > -Tom > > > On Jul 1, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > It could just be that the computer will not boot off the USB stick. > > > > Remove the disk drive, attach it to another computer and install Linux > unto > > that drive then put the drive backing the PC. I've resorted to that > trick > > a few times and got Linux installed on a machine with no CD. > > > > The other tick is to have a USB CD drive and then install from CD. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:13 PM, <tom-...@bgp.nu> wrote: > > > >> Still fighting with this. I’ve never had so much problem installing > >> Linuxcnc. I have tried everything, different USB sticks, building on > >> several different machines using the several different methods and > nothing > >> I do seems to help. I still get stuck in this loop of the install > trying > >> to use a cdrom that doesn’t exist. Very frustrating. > >> -Tom > >> > >> > >>> On Jun 30, 2017, at 6:20 PM, tom-...@bgp.nu wrote: > >>> > >>> I was going to update my Emco F1 mill with the latest Linuxcnc running > >> on Debian Wheezy. It is currently on an old Ubuntu that isn’t updated > >> anymore. I have built a bootable USB stick using two different methods, > >> one from my Mac using terminal commands and one from another Debian > machine > >> using the instructions on the Linuxcnc web site. Both times when > trying to > >> install from the menu I get stuck in this loop where it wants to find a > CD > >> Rom drive. I have tried many things found on the internet(s) when > >> searching for "linuxcnc install usb stick tries to find CD Rom” none of > >> which seem to work. > >>> > >>> The problem is like this, only this solution fails saying “Invalid > >> argument” to the mount command: > >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6SV7D7UTk > >>> > >>> I haven’t had this problem in the past, not sure why it is happening. > >> Any ideas? > >>> -Tom > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >> ------------------ > >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Emc-users mailing list > >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >> ------------------ > >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-users mailing list > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Albertson > > Redondo Beach, California > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
