Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk

2008-01-29 Thread jdd

Jan Albrecht a écrit :

Hi,

sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the 
problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is.
I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just 
produces the Missing Operating System error.


did you look here?

http://en.opensuse.org/Installing_SuSE_on_External_USB_Drive

it's probably only a bootable flagg not set on the right partition
jdd

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Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk

2008-01-28 Thread Victor Prada
basically you have to manually tell the BIOS to boot from the USB
disk the last time I made an install on a USB drive, before
rebooting the first time I did create a new initrd file to tell the
kernel to load the usb modules and be able to mount the root partition
from the USB drive (I do remember to add usb_storage,sg,sbp2 and others)

if you don't create the new initrd, there is a chance that your
installation won't boot to fix it, use a rescue system, chroot to
your installation and create the new initrd

best Regards
Victor Prada

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:12 -0500, Jose wrote:
 First thing to check if the computer you are trying to boot up supports 
 usb bootup, when yu are booting up, you may see a meesage press esc/f8 
 or something like that to select boot up device, that usually brings up 
 a small menu where you can select which device to boot from, if USB is 
 available select it and that should make your system to boot up from the 
 usb drive.
 
 Jan Albrecht wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal
  disc drive in my company notebook.
  Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB
  drive? Currently it just tells me Missing operrating system.
  Thanks
  Jan
 


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Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk

2008-01-28 Thread Jose
First thing to check if the computer you are trying to boot up supports 
usb bootup, when yu are booting up, you may see a meesage press esc/f8 
or something like that to select boot up device, that usually brings up 
a small menu where you can select which device to boot from, if USB is 
available select it and that should make your system to boot up from the 
usb drive.


Jan Albrecht wrote:

Hi all,

I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal
disc drive in my company notebook.
Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB
drive? Currently it just tells me Missing operrating system.
Thanks
Jan

  

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Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Albrecht

Hi,

sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the 
problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is.
I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just 
produces the Missing Operating System error.


Jan

Victor Prada wrote:

basically you have to manually tell the BIOS to boot from the USB
disk the last time I made an install on a USB drive, before
rebooting the first time I did create a new initrd file to tell the
kernel to load the usb modules and be able to mount the root partition
from the USB drive (I do remember to add usb_storage,sg,sbp2 and others)

if you don't create the new initrd, there is a chance that your
installation won't boot to fix it, use a rescue system, chroot to
your installation and create the new initrd

best Regards
Victor Prada

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:12 -0500, Jose wrote:
  
First thing to check if the computer you are trying to boot up supports 
usb bootup, when yu are booting up, you may see a meesage press esc/f8 
or something like that to select boot up device, that usually brings up 
a small menu where you can select which device to boot from, if USB is 
available select it and that should make your system to boot up from the 
usb drive.


Jan Albrecht wrote:


Hi all,

I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal
disc drive in my company notebook.
Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB
drive? Currently it just tells me Missing operrating system.
Thanks
Jan

  
  


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Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk

2008-01-28 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:41:04 am Jan Albrecht wrote:
 Hi,

 sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the
 problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is.
 I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just
 produces the Missing Operating System error.

 Jan

See if this or links listed at the bottom of article can help:
http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick

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