I'm no linux expert, but I was hoping to boot and run Astlinux entirely from an external usb flash drive. How difficult is it to make that work?
Thanks, Dave On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Darrick Hartman <dhart...@djhsolutions.com> wrote: > None of the current released images will boot from an external usb > drive. You can boot a CDROM iso > > We're also aware that the 'astinstall' function is not working from the > ISO. You can create a unionfs storage partition, properly labeled, and > it will be detected by the bootable iso image. > > We have these as items on the list, but right now it's a long list. > > Darrick > > On 03/23/2010 10:09 PM, Jay D. Allen wrote: >> Well the kernel can load, and will boot via kexec. Its the initrd thats not >> loading. >> >> Jay Allen >> F2 Inc >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thczv F. Thczv"<thczv.th...@gmail.com> >> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:16:22 PM >> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen >> >> Did you learn anything about this problem? I am trying to boot 0.7.0 >> from a flash drive on a fairly standard computer (a Dell X1 laptop). >> But it fails with this same error. >> >> Any idea why it does this? >> >> Dave >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jay D. Allen<j...@f2it.com> wrote: >>> Its the kexec that's failing. I choose a very generic Xen environment and >>> then try and load the 0.7.0 stock or beta. Same issue. Boots, copies >>> kernel and initrd, but kexec fails with "Invalid memory ..." >>> >>> Jay >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Darrick Hartman"<dhart...@djhsolutions.com> >>> To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List"<astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:45:05 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] running AstLinux under Xen >>> >>> On 03/14/2010 03:11 AM, Jay D. Allen wrote: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> Does anyone currently run AstLinux under Xen? I've tried it couple >>>> of ways, but it fails at the kexec stage with "Invalid memory..." Sound >>>> familiar to you? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Jay >>> >>> Jay, >>> >>> I've successfully used VirtualBox and VMware, but have not tried Xen. >>> Sorry I couldn't be of more help. If you do figure out how to do this, >>> we would accept a howto on the wiki page. >>> >>> Darrick >>> -- >>> Darrick Hartman >>> DJH Solutions, LLC >>> http://www.djhsolutions.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. > > > -- > Darrick Hartman > DJH Solutions, LLC > http://www.djhsolutions.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
