On Monday 07 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: >I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick >to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD >using livecd-iso-to-disk . > >The problem is that the ancient machine I am dealing with >does not support booting from the USB stick. > >So following advice here, I transferred vmlinuz0 and initrd0.img >from the stick to the hard disk, >and added a stanza to grub to boot from this: >--------------------------------------- >title Upgrade to Fedora-12 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /syslinux/vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sdc2 > initrd /syslinux/initrd0.img >--------------------------------------- >Here /dev/sdc2 is the relevant partition on the memory stick. > >This works up to a point; >but it fails (after entering the interactive stage) >when trying to check the partitions, presumably with fsck . >In particular the check on the boot partition is said to fail, >even though it boots perfectly well with this partition under F-11. > >I don't understand where it gets a list of partitions to check - >it seems to be using /etc/fstab from the Fedora-11 system, >which seems illogical to me. > >In any case, my query is: Is there any way of adding something >to the grub kernel line to stop partition checking? > >Or is there some other trick I could apply? > >I should say that this is a purely theoretical experiment; >I know there are many other ways I could install Fedora-12. >But I installed F-12 on several other machines using the USB stick, >and it would be useful to know if I could actually update >all machines in this way.
I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an 8Gb stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a file at the instant, and my dvd writer seems to have turned itself into a write only for dvd's but is still reading cd's ok. However, this asus bios I have not seen a boot from usb option in its boot menu's. Any ideas as to how to proceed? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Armstrong's Collection Law: If the check is truly in the mail, it is surely made out to someone else. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
