On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 19:53 +0000, Richard Melville wrote: > I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT > and ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. > If I use a UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it > doesn't seem to like either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot cycle > goes round in circles. > > > Any help much appreciated, otherwise I'll stick while I'm ahead, > although I'd rather be using a UUID.
UUID? Or PARTUUID? The former uses the filesystem ids, the latter uses the GPT partition ids, and only the latter will work without an initramfs. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
