Hi All,
Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work? I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". The attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this is running on is a compaq presario R3000.
-Will
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:33 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work?
Works great for me. Unfortunately, different USB keys will sometimes require some tweaking based on how they're shipped :-/
I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". The attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this is running on is a compaq presario R3000.
A grub message? We're not using grub for the F7 live images. Did you previously have a regular install on there? If so, you probably need to replace the mbr with a "stock" mbr with something like cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX
Unfortunately, detecting this is pretty close to impossible :-/
Jeremy
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:33 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work?
Works great for me. Unfortunately, different USB keys will sometimes require some tweaking based on how they're shipped :-/
I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". The attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this is running on is a compaq presario R3000.
A grub message? We're not using grub for the F7 live images. Did you previously have a regular install on there? If so, you probably need to replace the mbr with a "stock" mbr with something like cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX
Yes, the old mbr was the problem. I wiped the "stock" mbr. I was previous using the key for booting a olpc machine and the mbr must have been left over from that. I assumed that livecd-iso-to-disk took care of the mbr. I guess that is what I get when I assume.
I have images from a livecd-creator iso working in the USB flash. I just wished that the kernel-debuginfos required by systemtap were not so huge. Only have 700MB of room on CD and the kernel-debuginfo takes a lot of space.
-Will
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