Jørn Eriksen wrote: > Eric & All, > > I think we sort of agree - it's just the way there we walk differetly :-)
Agree about what? (sorry, I have given up to scroll up and down trying to follow what people are talking about when somebody top-post. I follow more than one mailing list...) http://google.com/search?q=top-posting+netiquette never mind... > I'll try to add the VFAT module to the initrd_u when I get back home. > Just to see how that work out. More for my own curiousity than anything > else. You might want to check out the ub usb driver as well. You don't need the scsi subsystem for using the ub driver so its smaller. According the documentation the ub driver might be slower but should work on more devices. > I've ordered a 256Mb Stick as well. When that stick arrive I'll also note > down the pysical geometry of all my sticks to see if the match up. If > they do, I'll go ahead and see if I can create an generic image for the > sticks. If that works OK I guess a "small" change to the create scripts > can fix it all. I don't really see the point in using images? Why not only copying all files over, run syslinux and reboot? When you are dealing with new USB sticks, that should be enough. They ship them partitioned and formatted with vfat. (fat32 is AFAIK backward compatible with fat16 so even if your driver only support fat16 it should work). Take look how I did on Alpine. http://alpine.cinematicnetworks.com/downloads/alpine/v0.0/iso/alpine-0.0.4-20060124.iso It's an bootable cdrom iso, but just copy all the files (on the iso image) to your new 256MB USB stick, run syslinux ("syslinux /dev/uba1" or "syslinux /dev/sdX1" where X is the letter for your usb drive) and reboot. If you have already destroyed your MBR on the USB stick (using tools like dd) then run: dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/uba (or sda or whatever your usb device is) If you use an older computer that does not support boot from USB, then create a floppy using the floppy/usb.img. Boot from the floppy with the USB stick inserted. FYI. I never got your stick.img to boot. First I got the same "no operating system" message as previously mentioned. After installing the syslinux mbr.bin on the stick it found the kernel and booted it up but ended with a kernel panic: "Can't open /var/lib/lrpkg/root.dev.own" -- Natanael Copa ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
