From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl@insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: more stuff about installing from memory stick
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:33:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C61DBC44B0D4C2194AF83422CF67E47@randy3> (raw)
Samuel,
I talked to Kirk about this the other day and among other things he insists
that if I copied the .iso image to the stick with dd if=blah of=blah it
would boot. Well, my computer won't recognize the stick as bootable when I
do this, it goes to the next boot device which is the normal hard disk. I
also tried reformatting the stick with ext2 and grub and syslinux but
couldn't get it to boot. Vfat and syslinux is the only thing that will boot.
Even if I load the loop module from busybox before doing any steps of the
install, The .iso file I previously put in the root of the stick doesn't get
mounted unless I do it from the shell. I really don't feel qualified to file
a good bug report on this. Obviously this was never really tested, maybe
it's something they hoped would work, who knows. So how about asking them to
at least include loop.ko in initrd.gz? If they should come up with a fix I
would be more than happy to try it. Is it possible to be more than happy?
next reply other threads:[~ UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Kitty Litter [this message]
` Samuel Thibault
` luke
` Kirk Reiser
` Gaijin
` Terry D. Cudney
` Samuel Thibault
` Terry D. Cudney
` Samuel Thibault
` Terry D. Cudney
` luke
` Terry D. Cudney
` Samuel Thibault
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8C61DBC44B0D4C2194AF83422CF67E47@randy3 \
--to=n8kl@insightbb.com \
--cc=speakup@braille.uwo.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).