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| From | Unknown <dog@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: booting with usb |
| Date | 2015-04-11 15:03 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <pan.2015.04.11.15.04.56@gmail.com> (permalink) |
| References | <mg222t$c8k$1@dont-email.me> <mg3n5k$vfg$1@dont-email.me> <mg3up10ld2@news3.newsguy.com> |
On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:15:45 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2015-04-08, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-04-08, Bill Cunningham <mospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok someone told me this needs to be done when booting from a usb.
>>> I have
>>> looked all over and can't find the steps. To boot from usb I was
>>> advised to use a uuid in fstab. Ok fine. Do I need to do anything with
>>> initramfs.conf ? initramfs has to be alter too somehow. Does any one
>>> know anything about this?
>>
>> Information would be good. What computer? Does it use URFI or legacy
>> boot? Is usb booting enabled in the bios? Whic distribution are you
>> trying to boot?
AFAIK
BIOS must show the facility [in its menu].
probably USB-CDROM and
my this old MOBO [does SATA & old-IDE] has a selection for "USB zip"
[strange name?!] which boots the USBstik,
which the Slak13 installation has setup;
and which I've been editing, since the Slak install just wrote to the
[obviously M$ formatted] new USBstik.
IMO initramfs.conf can't be accessed until booting has suceeded?
===> here's part of the mess:---
~:fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 8023 MB, 8023703552 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xde8e7bb0
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 197240 197273 253319 e4 SpeedStor
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(190, 120, 0) logical=(197239, 8, 51)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(544, 125, 44) logical=(197272, 29, 24)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 ? 65729 195542 993984023 98 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1010, 16, 43) logical=(65728, 56, 10)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(205, 205, 22) logical=(195541, 245, 55)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3 ? 110790 236159 959953209 7d Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(252, 139, 46) logical=(110789, 48, 54)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 195, 2) logical=(236158, 138, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 ? 244 249 32768 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(243, 229, 53)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(248, 51, 54)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
-------------------Here's the USBstik [single partition's contents:-
# ls -l
total 12148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 595 2014-02-25 12:50 HOW2boot2Win
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2267 2015-04-06 20:44 Log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2014-09-25 19:04 Mandr9fd0Btr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2014-02-25 12:50 etc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 653 2013-09-02 22:27 f1.txt ++
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2014-10-22 15:35 fromwxp.dir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2375866 2014-09-17 14:28 initrd.gz <- for kz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2014-09-17 14:32 kogi4.dos
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4907792 2014-09-17 14:29 kz <-difrnt Knl
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10827 2013-09-02 22:27 ldlinux.sys ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 708 2013-11-28 19:13 message.txt ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 906 2014-12-17 15:17 sylinux.cfg ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 302 2014-09-17 15:27 sysBKcfg ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 396 2014-10-09 14:49 syslOct.cfg ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 609 2014-09-29 11:11 syslOct.cfgL ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 974 2015-04-06 20:46 syslinux.cfg ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 411 2014-10-09 19:10 syslinux.cfgC32 ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309 2014-09-17 14:38 syslnxB2.cfg ++
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2014-07-12 14:06 tts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123172 2014-10-09 15:57 vesamenu.c32 ++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4940304 2013-09-02 22:27 vmlinuz ++
The ones marked "++" were from the Slak13 installation;
PLUS ones that I've edited/experimented.
vesamenu.c32 and ldlinux.sys are the original binaries.
Since it's a 8GB stik, I've written other M$ stuff for if/when I boot
winXP.
hexdump of ldlinux.sys [apparently the loader] is:--
00000000 0D 0A 53 59 53 4C 49 4E 55 58 20 33 2E 35 32 20 ..SYSLINUX
3.52
00000010 32 30 30 37 2D 30 39 2D 32 35 20 00 0D 0A 1A 00
2007-09-25 .....
00000020 FE 02 B2 3E 44 07 41 78 92 0A 15 00 D1 8A 9D
A5 ...>D.Ax........
------
one text files does the config; which I've expanded/experimented;
and one does the message/prompts.
It works well for me.
And an alternative boot-route to different instalattion/s & M$ is
to unplug the stik and go via the 2nd-alternative: hard-disk:MBR.
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booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-07 22:00 -0400
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 17:05 +0000
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 13:20 -0400
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 20:56 +0000
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 18:27 -0400
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 03:58 +0000
Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-09 07:44 -0700
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 16:51 -0400
Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-09 15:57 -0500
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 18:19 -0400
Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-09 17:50 -0500
Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-10 14:30 -0400
Re: booting with usb Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-04-12 03:24 +0000
Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-12 09:14 -0400
Re: booting with usb Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-04-08 19:15 +0000
Re: booting with usb Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 15:03 +0000
Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-08 12:51 -0500
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 14:10 -0400
Re: booting with usb Roland Latour <no-one@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 13:28 -0500
Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-08 11:33 -0700
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 14:39 -0400
Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-08 16:18 -0500
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 18:19 -0400
Re: booting with usb Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-04-09 02:28 +0000
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 04:00 +0000
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 03:59 +0000
Re: booting with usb Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-08 20:46 +0200
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 15:15 -0400
Re: booting with usb Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-08 21:29 +0200
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 20:14 -0400
Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-08 13:03 -0700
Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-10 13:56 -0400
Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-10 11:17 -0700
Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 21:01 +0000
Re: booting with usb Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-04-11 13:57 +0000
Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 17:04 -0400
Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-12 09:29 -0400
Re: booting with usb Andreas Kohlbach <apr15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-04-08 17:54 -0400
Re: booting with usb J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-04-08 23:18 +0000
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