[syslinux] booting from USB key

[Geert Stappers]

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:10:51PM -0500, James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov wrote:
> syslinux-bounces at zytor.com wrote on 12/01/2005 05:42:42 PM:
> > > I built the initrd on a machine running the same kernel version as the 
> > > USB stick with the following command:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > mkinitrd --with-usb --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage 
> > > --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod usbinitrd-`uname -r` `uname -r`
> > > 
 <bigsnip/>
> > 
> > Has the USB memory stick really a partition table?
> >  ( try: `fdisk -l /dev/sda` on the device on another system )
> > 
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1024 MB, 1024966656 bytes
> 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1         993     1000912+  83  Linux

Mmmm, that is a sane looking partition table.

> 
> Any ideas?

Nope, not really. The corner where I would continue searching
is in the usbinitrd part, but that is only based on gut feeling.


anyway, HTH
GSt
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