From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mxsf08.insightbb.com (mxsf08.insightbb.com [74.128.0.78]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895C2109C6 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:31:36 -0500 (EST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,612,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="584615643" Received: from unknown (HELO asav00.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf08.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 15 Nov 2008 17:33:24 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoMRAHLcHklKgtGZ/2dsb2JhbACBZogyw0aCeQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,612,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="61311145" Received: from 74-130-209-153.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO randy3) ([74.130.209.153]) by asav00.insightbb.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2008 17:33:24 -0500 Message-ID: <8C61DBC44B0D4C2194AF83422CF67E47@randy3> From: "Kitty Litter" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: more stuff about installing from memory stick Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:33:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:31:37 -0000 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?