In the process of building an amd64 diskless box, I am trying to make a
bootable USB key with no success up to now.
The first problem I encountered was related to ext2/vfat. I initially
tried to format the key as ext2, but grub refuses to install on it. Even
though I copied the /boot/grub/*
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:43:53AM +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
In the process of building an amd64 diskless box, I am trying to make a
bootable USB key with no success up to now.
The kernel starts to load, but panics because it is unable to find the
root partition. When it stops it shows
I had the same two problems.
WRT to grub, I don't remember anymore exactly what I have done, but I
think I have
copied sectors 1-62 from one conventional grub-bootable HDD to USB,
Or maybe used some old HDD and formated it, parittioned it like the USB
disk, copied /boot partition on it and
Thanks to you and Kyle for the hint on rootdelay, I will give it a try.
Regarding the performance, it should not be a real issue in my case. I
will only use the key to boot the kernel and send a Wake-on-Lan packet
to a file server, then I'll mount the discs over NFS.
bye,
raf
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Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted
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The kernel starts to load, but panics because it is unable to find the
root partition. When it stops it shows the available partitions, these
include all the hard disk partitions
Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
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The kernel starts to load, but panics because it is unable to find the
root partition. When it stops it shows the available partitions, these
include all the hard disk partitions but no USB key partition. In fact,
if I omit the 'root' parameter from the grub shell the
Jason wrote:
You may want to look at specifying root by it's UUID. This will
prevent issues like the USB drive being /dev/sdg on one machine,
/dev/sdb on another, and on reboot it all changing because the drives
were detected in a different order.
I have tried that and booting by UUID
Branko Badrljica wrote:
Jason wrote:
You may want to look at specifying root by it's UUID. This will
prevent issues like the USB drive being /dev/sdg on one machine,
/dev/sdb on another, and on reboot it all changing because the drives
were detected in a different order.
I have tried that
Jason wrote:
initrd is exactly how you do it. In the case of booting off of USB,
there are too many variables (drive detection order, different
hardware, etc) to handle on the kernel command line. An initrd gives
you the flexibility to solve these problems.
You could use initrd/initramfs,
Branko Badrljica wrote:
Jason wrote:
initrd is exactly how you do it. In the case of booting off of USB,
there are too many variables (drive detection order, different
hardware, etc) to handle on the kernel command line. An initrd gives
you the flexibility to solve these problems.
You
Hello, I´m did install UtutoXS2007 (based on Gentoo 2007), FreeBsd, and I don´t
have this problem. Generally the USB key when exec the post the same is (sd0)
and boot, then of boot the usb key, (sd0) is the principal Hard Disk, NOT THE
USB KEY, this pass of (sd0) to (sd1).
Partitions:
Kingston
- Original Message -
From: Drake Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] boot Gentoo from USB key
- Original Message -
From: Raffaele BELARDI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-amd64
Hernan Lopez wrote:
Hello, I´m did install UtutoXS2007 (based on Gentoo 2007), FreeBsd, and I don´t
have this problem. Generally the USB key when exec the post the same is (sd0)
and boot, then of boot the usb key, (sd0) is the principal Hard Disk, NOT THE
USB KEY, this pass of (sd0) to (sd1).
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