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 1Ow15X-0000hh-8x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:08:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC301E0C72 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E4CE0931 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so609372iwn.40 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:04:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3m8ZeyncDhxnegirTHsfjDSXmKJ5SDlvoMcc1gHUKnw=; b=o796g/6ecI0F09MI6UYHLJqHzI3C2imLnZgV0sOAFdXSMlR5cVaENHvXuhRFlwrGpR p2wSerWXVgV32HyK8OOLBVj5A+tieuqZYgFXrX7h4WJZZvKo3Gt+0cCY5ieKw5YYvnRx Dtr4N2XJwB98XrDZbiRfzSINeamre9hbWGLdg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WFxIi38eDRla+5mRc2yKrWGOD8+/Ochgu/Qd0rhAU6G3l5yeQt84QbwAArls3f4H0M bmP5iQ7UWuysOr2UYctnJcNQ+8zhnkfJ8+oZAgdqsm0c/AL9LOKpSUC3XW8b56kwEoJ3 VOrRPDkTgPQHP1LcqVPK/pgDRk614Bd4JKFy0= 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 Received: by 10.231.154.73 with SMTP id n9mr2519629ibw.10.1284591875944; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.138 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:04:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C914C09.3010805@gmail.com> References: <4C89BD8B.4020306@gmail.com> <4C89EFB2.3080903@gmail.com> <201009101105.13162.joost@antarean.org> <20100910072901.597f7dec@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100914182806.GA9603@ksp.sk> <4C8FF879.1000808@gmail.com> <20100915101013.GC9603@ksp.sk> <4C9142AF.3060603@gmail.com> <4C914C09.3010805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:04:35 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick From: Al To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 863d3aac-5613-4859-a774-a765076cfd57 X-Archives-Hash: edd93b25ea471bb6024cf5f3e866e76d > As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different name for it in german and use concretus more in the original sense. > > If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by "it starts", my previous > posts show how far into the boot process it gets. =A0If I specify by > /dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but > fails to find the partition. =A0If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me i= t I am still asking myself, if it is the USB stick at all that you see starting. Couldn't it be a kernel from the inbuild hard disk? ... wich you would *hear* in that case ... maybe even smell or feel ... Hence I ask you if there linux kernel on the first or second partition of your disk. Al