If you are using an EFI boot system then you can boot using that for usb as well as disc. It requires the EFI partition, which is a vfat type (fat32 or fat16) fs, and a couple of additional things installed (pciutils and efibootmgr).
On 26/09/2013 6:58 PM, Thomas de Roo wrote: > Booting from USB is for most BIOSes only supported for FAT-filesystems. You > probably need to do something with initramfs or initrd. > > Regards, > Thomas > > -----Original Message----- > From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org > [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Casey Daniels > Sent: donderdag 26 september 2013 06:23 > To: LFS Support List > Subject: [lfs-support] Boot Issues > > I've followed the book word for word and now I'm having some booting > issues. I've tried to boot off a USB Thumb Drive, an SD Card, and when > its running through the boot proccess it keeps telling me that there is > an unknown partition type, and therefore can't mount the root fs. > > I've redone the parition table on both media a few times, verifiy its > MS-DOS MBR type. I've formarted the file system again and recopied > everything on there. I've built the kernel with no modules, all inline, > and have just about everything you can think of marked. > > Interesting note, used to be able to grub-install /dev/sda from in side > the chroot, but now for some reason it won't let me do that, I get a > warning stating that /boot/grub won't be aviable at boot time so its > aborting. > > > Thank You, > Casey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
