Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows. There must have been something in this thread that I missed -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows. There must have been something in this thread that I missed It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition on it. /Andreas
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
On Monday 20 April 2009 01:10:41 Andreas Claesson wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition on it. OK, that makes sense -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I would ask before trying the directions again. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:43:56 PM, Valmor wrote: Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I would ask before trying the directions again. Thanks, I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later. BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd iso) and got: Missing operating system Operating system not found Thanks, -- Valmor
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Friday, April 17, 2009, 10:21:04 PM, Valmor wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later. BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd iso) and got: Missing operating system Operating system not found This means: 1. You didn't copy MBR or boot loader to USB stick. 2. You boot from other device :) Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? Thanks, -- Valmor -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list pgp0xxDEcrEWs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB The only thing I could add is to mention the ebuilds for the tools you used. That said, it works for me. Cheers. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
Please mention this kind of thing on the talk page. I will go ahead and post your email this time, as well as make the necessary changes. -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
Jason Dusek ha scritto: I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought I'd share how I did that with everyone. Cool! Post it on the Gentoo wiki! m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB
Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] LiveUSB
I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought I'd share how I did that with everyone. The three steps are: . Format the stick. . Put the Gentoo stuff on there. . Slap on the boot loader and configure it. Prepare The Stick - For the DVD, you need a big stick -- for the CD, not so much. Let's say the stick is at `/dev/sda`. Using fdisk, create one partition on it, marking it bootable. (That part is explained all over the place.) When that is over, run mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 and then put the master boot record on the device: cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin /dev/sda Copy The Gentoo Material Mount the ISO of your choice -- say it's at `/media/iso` -- along with `/dev/sda1` at `/media/usb`. All you have to do is: cp -pPR /media/iso/* /media/usb Setup The Bootloader This is where my process differs from the tutorials for Gentoo. I lifted the idea from the Pentoo distribution (now defunct). You install the `extlinux` loader _to the directory_ where the bootable stuff -- so it's okay to leave it all in isolinux. cd /media cp usb/isolinux/isolinux.cfg usb/isolinux/extlinux.conf extlinux -i usb/isolinux There will be a `extlinux.sys` file in there along side the configuration file after you install. That's it. I wanted to go with ext3 so I could have links and a large filesystem -- FAT16 won't take more than 2GB -- and I'm glad this was so easy with Gentoo 2007.0! It's too bad the tutorials out there don't make it clear the progress that has been made in the last year. USB booting is great -- I will likely exploit the ease of 'remastering' my image to good effect when installing on my OQO -- and I hope this email helps others out there who are interested in the topic. -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive
Hi there, I've been reading the LiveUSB docs at www.gentoo.org/docs/en/liveusb.xml Rather than booting a livecd from a USB stick, however, I'd like to do so from a USB Hard Drive. The sensitive thing here is I just want a 1GB partition on this drive as a rescue disk of sorts -- the rest of the drive has lots of important data, which I really can't lose. So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run on a disk with non backed-up data on it (no, I currently have no real backup of the disk - 180GB to backup is too expensive for me) Thanks in advance, Nick P.S. Without meaning to sound like a fanboy, I started using Gentoo not so long ago, and it's the best thing ever, far exceeding even sliced bread. -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F SIP : [EMAIL PROTECTED]PSTN: 0560 0030509 pgpx4JuP7L22R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive
Hi, On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:03:15 +0100 Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run on a disk with non backed-up data on it (no, I currently have no real backup of the disk - 180GB to backup is too expensive for me) So make a backup of the relevant part first. Check for the length of /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin and make a backup: dd if=/dev/sda of=/my-mbr-mackup bs=1024 count=1 (insert correct count according to that mentioned file size). But why not just use grub and bother with syslinux instead? But it boils down to be a matter of taste, I guess... -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
