Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:43:56 PM, Valmor wrote: > Hello, > I followed all the steps in > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml > and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image > livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When > trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I > have to use 2007? are there other steps needed to be taken? Thought I > would ask before trying the directions again. > Thanks, I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Will give it a try later. BTW, I tried the whole thing again following the doc (using the livecd iso) and got: Missing operating system Operating system not found Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. Thanks, -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: > > Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? > > This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows. There must have been something in this thread that I missed -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. That is ... weird To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows. There must have been something in this thread that I missed It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition on it. /Andreas
Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working
On Monday 20 April 2009 01:10:41 Andreas Claesson wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. > > Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition > on it. OK, that makes sense -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com