On 16/09/10 09:04, Al wrote: >> As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. > Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. > The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different > name for it in german and use concretus more in the original sense. > >> If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by "it starts", my previous >> posts show how far into the boot process it gets. If I specify by >> /dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but >> fails to find the partition. If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me it > I am still asking myself, if it is the USB stick at all that you see > starting. Couldn't it be a kernel from the inbuild hard disk? ... wich > you would *hear* in that case ... maybe even smell or feel ... > > Hence I ask you if there linux kernel on the first or second partition > of your disk. > > Al > Ah, I see. For this test, I have a second PC that I've unplugged the hard drive from. And it's hard drive currently has a work Windows image on it, anyway, so it's definitely not booting from that. :-)
I also have finished my new kernel. It now recognizes the root device by label, but still hangs on the fsck. Any more bright ideas? Surely someone has done this already; I can't be the first to try it. Hasn't someone else put a Gentoo install on a USB stick? If I'm correct in my assumptions, it sounds as though GRUB and the kernel are seeing it right, but something in the Gentoo init scripts is breaking it. Can anyone even comment if that assumption is correct? I'm not entirely clear on genkernel and the initramfs it provides, and at what step each of these takes effect. Jake Moe
