Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Richard Melville
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd. Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try: menuentry LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01 { linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd. Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself,

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:08:45 +0100 Alexey Orishko alexey.oris...@gmail.com wrote: I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with different (old) BIOS version. I've read BIOS release notes and found

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote: Returning back to the root of the problem, can you give a bit more light? If you have an USB with ext2 (or whatever), you can not boot a new BIOS, correct? If you have an USB with FAT32, and with the exact same

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-19 Thread alex lupu
Hi Alexey (and greetings to all the other current and future USB stick contributors), I've noticed a keen interest in booting off an USB stick (10+ posts and counting) so maybe my humble experience with the subject could be of help. REQUIREMENTS (at the time - a year ago): 1. A Knoppix release

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Melville
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: What worked for me in the end is the following: I don't use a initrd and I partition the flash drive with GPT, format with ext2, and boot to an ext4 partition on an mSATA SSD. I use Syslinux rather

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, I had the same problem; you have to have the kernel image on the same flash drive. That could be seen as a security issue but as we are dealing with very small computers somebody could just as

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexey Orishko wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, I had the same problem; you have to have the kernel image on the same flash drive. That could be seen as a security issue but as we are dealing with very small computers

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-18 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using a GUID Partition Table (GPT), then you don't need a initrd. Assuming /boot is on a partition by itself, try: menuentry LFS Dev, Linux 3.10.32-sm01 { linux /vmlinuz-3.10.32-sm01 \

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-17 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: What worked for me in the end is the following: I don't use a initrd and I partition the flash drive with GPT, format with ext2, and boot to an ext4 partition on an mSATA SSD. I use Syslinux rather than

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-17 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 11, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Alexey Orishko wrote: Hi guys, I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with different (old) BIOS version. I've read BIOS release notes and found nothing relevant to the

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-12 Thread Richard Melville
I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with different (old) BIOS version. Yes, the BIOS is one of the final bastions of proprietary software/firmware, and many are crap with little opportunity to do

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-12 Thread xinglp
2014-03-12 3:08 GMT+08:00 Alexey Orishko alexey.oris...@gmail.com: Hi guys, I can't boot BLFS 7.4 system (Intel Atom 32-bit) from USB stick on some motherboards, but I can do it on the same motherboard type with different (old) BIOS version. I've read BIOS release notes and found nothing

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-12 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: try the below grub.cfg if your boot partition is same as root partition. set default=0 set timeout=3 insmod ext2 menuentry Default { set uuid=d768c1f0-79c9-45c4-b604-8d0735a71242 search.fs_uuid ${uuid} root linux

Re: [blfs-support] Failed to boot from USB stick

2014-03-12 Thread xinglp
2014-03-13 4:23 GMT+08:00 Alexey Orishko alexey.oris...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: try the below grub.cfg if your boot partition is same as root partition. set default=0 set timeout=3 insmod ext2 menuentry Default { set