Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread 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[2]: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread 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-20

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread 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. Wil

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread 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

[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread 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 20

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Dusek
Please mention this kind of thing on the talk page. I will go ahead and post your email this time, as well as make the necessary changes. -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: > Wow! > > Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb > in the past, guess I'll give it a try. > > Bill Roberts > > On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: > > Posted -- please let me know what you thi

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread 443-653-1569
Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: > Posted -- please let me know what you think: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB > > -- > _jsn > -- > ge

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-22 Thread Jason Dusek
Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-22 Thread b.n.
Jason Dusek ha scritto: > I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD > and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was > pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought > I'd share how I did that with everyone. Cool! Post it on the Gentoo wiki! m. --

[gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-21 Thread Jason Dusek
I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought I'd share how I did that with everyone. The three steps are: . Format the stick. . Put the Gentoo stuff o

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive

2007-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:03:15 +0100 Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, if I follow the commands at the doc mentioned above, should all > work fine? the dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (or > whatever) is of particular concern, as it's a scary command to run > on a disk with non b

[gentoo-user] LiveUSB booting a USB harddrive

2007-05-15 Thread Nick
Hi there, I've been reading the LiveUSB docs at www.gentoo.org/docs/en/liveusb.xml Rather than booting a livecd from a USB stick, however, I'd like to do so from a USB Hard Drive. The sensitive thing here is I just want a 1GB partition on this drive as a "rescue" disk of sorts -- the rest of the