Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:33 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work?
Works great for me. Unfortunately, different USB keys will sometimes
require some tweaking based on how they're shipped :-/
I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was
unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash
device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It
would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". The
attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The
I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key
and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this is
running on is a compaq presario R3000.
A grub message? We're not using grub for the F7 live images. Did you
previously have a regular install on there? If so, you probably need to
replace the mbr with a "stock" mbr with something like
cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX
Yes, the old mbr was the problem. I wiped the "stock" mbr. I was previous using
the key for booting a olpc machine and the mbr must have been left over from
that. I assumed that livecd-iso-to-disk took care of the mbr. I guess that is
what I get when I assume.
I have images from a livecd-creator iso working in the USB flash. I just wished
that the kernel-debuginfos required by systemtap were not so huge. Only have
700MB of room on CD and the kernel-debuginfo takes a lot of space.
-Will
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