From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OyNQy-0003lc-2Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:24:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD22CE0BA8; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE3CE0BA8 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.152] (helo=smtp20.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyNPo-0005AH-0E for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:23:08 +0200 Received: from 53532a97.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.42.151] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp20.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyNPn-0000QC-5C for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:23:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83773DA4 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:24:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KelHh7Uuq5dy for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06E8440 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:24:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:23:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C89BD8B.4020306@gmail.com> <201009220916.45517.joost@antarean.org> <4C99C89D.6060707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C99C89D.6060707@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009221323.05683.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1OyNPn-0000QC-5C X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 01c3ff52-3585-4f0f-9078-6414b8821470 X-Archives-Hash: 05de0b3fe0cb6c9ccb441cea73378de5 On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > > > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > >> I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, > >> if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not > >> found, but sda1 is listed as available), but if I use root=/dev/sda1, it > >> works. However, later in the boot process, it mounts / using > >> LABEL=UsbRoot in fstab just fine. Is that a problem with GRUB? Or the > >> kernel? Or am I doing something else wrong? > > > > I think someone mentioned earlier in this thread that "label" support for > > boot requires an initrd (ramdisk) to work. This could be what you're > > running into? > > Quite possibly. I seem to be reading the same thing, but I thought I > had heard from the list previously that it was possible. > > Actually, I've just found the e-mail I was thinking of before: Alan > McKinnon's reply on 08/31/10 02:32 with the subject "Re: [gentoo-user] > Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers" in which he said > that he's always used labels and never needed an initramfs to make it > work. So I might have to fiddle with it some more and see if I can't > get it working. I haven't used labels for that, so I don't know what is needed for that. Maybe a kernel-config setting? > >> And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I > >> found these in the Gentoo Wiki: > >> USB Portable Install - > >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install Portable USB Gentoo > >> - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo > >> > >> Unfortunately, both use genkernel instead of manually configured > >> kernels, so that part doesn't help, but one mentions the option > >> "scandelay=2" to add to the kernel boot line in GRUB to introduce the > >> delay genkernel needed to see the USB device; would have been good to > >> know that last week when I was trying genkernel. :-P > > > > That is something I noticed for a few Howto's, genkernel is used quite > > often, but I actually haven't seen the need for it myself yet. > > > > But I am glad to hear you managed to get it working. > > Did you try trimming down your kernel a bit more to see what the minimum > > required is? :) > > > > -- > > Joost > > No, I'm still trying to get a basic system up and running. After I > booted into it, I tried to install v86d so I could try to get a > framebuffer working and have more lines on my screen while I try to trim > things down. However, I quickly ran into an "out of space" issue, which > I found out was because of inodes, not size. So I had to copy the > contents off, re-make the partition with more inodes, and then copy the > data back on. Since then, I haven't had a chance to boot it and see how > it's going. Hope to tomorrow. Ouch :( I'm usually a bit astumped when I get "out-of-space" issues and "df" still shows plenty of free disk space. Looking forward to your update :) -- Joost PS. Am thinking of playing around with that myself again sometime :)