Thanks. It worked. I didn't have a > /mnt/fai_usb/live/filesystem.dir
directory on my CD image. Just boot/ and boo.cab. I do the nfs mount
thing. So I did a debootstrap to the flash drive before the chroot step.
debootstrap squeeze /mnt/fai_usb
chroot /mnt/fai_usb /bin/bash
I think you have a small typo below,. I think
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb
should read
> grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb
The only other thing I did different from what you say is that I
formatted my flash drive as ext2 instead of ext3. I've read that there
is no point in using ext3 on a flash drive.
From memory. Fix for reality.
Partition and format your USB (if you are using an old fdisk, start at
sector 8 or later). Format as ext3.
Mounting as something like '/mnt/fai_usb' and the iso as '/mnt/fai_cd'.
Assuming /dev/sdb1 as your formatted USB device
mount -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt/fai_cd
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fai_usb
rsync -avp /mnt/fai_cd/. /mnt/fai_usb/.
cd /mnt/fai_usb/live/filesystem.dir
mount -o bind /proc proc
mount -o bind /dev dev
mount -o bind /sys sys
chroot . /bin/bash
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb
(This may take a while if the buffer is still syncing)
exit
umount proc sys dev
cd /mnt
umount fai_usb
And there you go!
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, John G. Heim <jh...@math.wisc.edu
<mailto:jh...@math.wisc.edu>> wrote:
I know this is a long shot but I am hoping someone has an answer. I
have been booting from a CD when I install FAI. I now have a machine
without a CD-ROM drive. I know I should set up PXE eventually but
for today, i'd like to boot from a flash drive. I know I can just
copy an ISO file to a thumb drive to make it boot. This works with
the debian netinst image and grml. So if your debian netinst images
is called debian.iso, you can do this to create a bootable thumbedrive:
cp debian.iso /dev/sdb
But if I do that with my FAI ISO, it does not work. The thumb drive
is not bootable. I did double check that my FAI ISO image is
bootable. If I write it to a CD, it boots.
wodim fai.iso
This gives me a bootable CD. But the following does not give me a
bottable thumb drive:
cp fai.iso /dev/sdb
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