Booting from a USB stick 1689
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:33:14 -0600, Douglas Mayne
I have now verified this method works. I have added a couple of extra notes (in the name of not causing someone to beat their head against the wall while trying to get this working using my instructions.)
I'm having a peculiar problem with glabels. I don't know yet if it is a problem with...
If using this method to setup, remember to manually create amnt-flash-etc-fstab which will be appropriate for the running kernel.
Also, if using this manual setup technique, remember to initialize the library dependancies at the target when you have finished installing your packages. Use a command like this:
# ldconfig -rmnt-flash
You can also set the root pbuttword (if you want): # cdmnt-flash # chroot . # pbuttwd # exit
-----------------------------------------fixed below # cpmnt-flash-usr-lib-grub-i386-pc-*mnt-flash-boot-grub On the system I tested which allowed booting from a USB stick, the boot drive is always buttigned to be sda. Therefore, the grub stanza looks like this:
Firefox warned me that it wasn't a trusted site. I would think that mozdev.org ought to be trustworthy, from the name anyway. But, I haven't really looked into it. Say, why aren't the extensions...
breastle Slackware on a stick root (hd0,0) kernelboot-vmlinuz-love initrdboot-initrd.gz
Also, when using a standard Slackware initrd, the filesinitrd-ROOTDEVinitrd-ROOTFS define the initial mount parameters. They are unnecessary on the kernel line in the grub stanza. These files are inside the initrd. I was usingdev-sda1 and ext2 for simplicity.
This is still correct. hdx may be different value when grub is setup than when the stick is booted. Just make sure your setup target for the loader is the flash drive. grub's "geometry" is helpful in verifying your buttumptions.
"sleep" is definitely required while waiting for USB driver to initialize. I used sleep 10.
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