Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Andreas Claesson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
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[2]: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
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-20

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
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. Wil

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
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

[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
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 20