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 Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: LiveUSB 2006.1 - Can't Mount / on Boot |
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I've had a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3730409#3730409.
I eventually ended up using catalyst to build my own image. After a few days' work and several very obvious mistakes, I got the thing built, with GRUB as the bootloader instead of syslinux or isolinux.
I copied the results from /var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default/livecd-stage2-x86-UberPinguin-0.2/ to /media/sda1/ (my USB stick) and ran 'grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda1/ /dev/sda'. So far so good.
Minor Problem 1: On boot, GRUB does not load the menu; I have to specify 'configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf' at the prompt. I can work with this for now, so I'm not too worried.
The specified image loads and starts to boot, lots of nice kernel messages and module probing. But it ends up not being able to mount the root.
Grub.conf: | Code: | default 1
timeout 150
title help
cat /boot/help.msg
title gentoo
kernel /boot/gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot vga=791
initrd /boot/gentoo.igz
title gentoo [ No FrameBuffer ]
kernel /boot/gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot
initrd /boot/gentoo.igz
title memtest86
kernel /boot/memtest86 |
I've tried various 'real_root' parameters, including /dev/loop0 and tmpfs. I'm sure the problem is something so obvious that it's painful, but I'm really too close to see it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
P.S.: I have tried passing 'doslowusb' but it only takes longer to get to the error message:
| Code: | >> Activating mdev
>> Determining root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specifiy a device to boot, or "shell for a shell...
boot( ) :: _ |
I am left with a blinking cursor, but the keyboard does not respond; I have to force the system off to reboot.
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UberPinguin
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Update: I thought I'd simplify things by extracting the image.squashfs to create a normal installation on the flash drive. I updated /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf to reflect the changes, re-installed grub to /dev/sda and rebooted....
Only to be confronted with the same problem. This time, though, the error says that (as near as I can remember) 'Block device /dev/sda1 is not a valid root device.' Same boot( ) : :_ prompt, same frozen keyboard.
Modified configs:
grub.conf | Code: | default 1
timeout 150
title help
cat /boot/help.msg
title gentoo
kernel /boot/gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/sda1 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@60
initrd /boot/gentoo.igz
title gentoo [ No FrameBuffer ]
kernel /boot/gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/sda1
initrd /boot/gentoo.igz
title memtest86
kernel /boot/memtest86 |
fstab | Code: | ####################################################
## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE FSTAB ON THE LIVECD ##
## PLEASE EDIT THE FSTAB at /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab ##
####################################################
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 0
tmpfs /lib/firmware tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /usr/portage tmpfs defaults 0 0
/.opt.sqfs /opt squashfs loop,defaults,ro 0 0
/.usr.sqfs /usr squashfs loop,defaults,ro 0 0
/.lib.sqfs /lib squashfs loop,defaults,ro 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/shared vfat defaults,rw 0 0 |
Note that I squashed /opt, /usr, and /lib - without that, we're looking at ~1.5GB being eaten. With it, everything fits into 600MB with a little space to spare.
Any other thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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