Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 30
Apr 2008 08:43:53 +0200:
> The kernel starts to load, but panics because it is unable to find the
> root partition. When it stops it shows the available partitions, these
> include all the hard disk partiti
Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 30
Apr 2008 08:43:53 +0200:
> In the process of building an amd64 diskless box, I am trying to make a
> bootable USB key with no success up to now.
>
> The first problem I encountered was related to ext2/vfat
Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 06
May 2008 15:18:01 +0200:
> I confirm that passing -I 128 to mkfs.ext2 fixes the problem, now grub
> finds the stage files and installs happily on the ext2 partition.
>
> thanks again,
Happy to be of help,
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From: "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 7:22 AM
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: boot Gentoo from USB key
Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 30
Apr 2008 08:43:53 +
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:33 -0400, Drake Donahue wrote:
> >
> > If I'm correct you're running into the ext3 large inode issue. Briefly,
> > old versions used 128 byte inodes, while newer versions use 256 byte
> > inodes by default, in ordered to be ready for the improvements coming in
> > ext4. T
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:38 +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:33 -0400, Drake Donahue wrote:
> > >
> > > If I'm correct you're running into the ext3 large inode issue. Briefly,
> > > old versions used 128 byte inodes, while newer versions use 256 byte
> > > inodes by defaul
