[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I 
would ask before trying the directions again.

Thanks,

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Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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 liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I
> have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I 
> would ask before trying the directions again.

> Thanks,

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.


-- 
Sergey

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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. Will give it a try later.

BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd 
iso) and got:

Missing operating system
Operating system not found


Thanks,

--
Valmor

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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-20090401.iso
>> ISO. It works nicely.
>> 
>> 

> Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later.

> BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd
> iso) and got:

> Missing operating system
> Operating system not found

This means:
1. You didn't copy MBR or boot loader to USB stick.
2. You boot from other device :)

Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo?


> Thanks,

> --
> Valmor




-- 
Sergey

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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 flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows.

There must have been something in this thread that I missed

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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 
> of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows.
> 
> There must have been something in this thread that I missed
> 

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.

/Andreas

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

[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

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com