Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:43:51PM -0400, Casey Daniels wrote: > Thanks for the info, > but followed the instructions and as usual I get the grub rescue > prompt which is a total different issue and question. > > But I tried what I have been trying to get the normal boot menu up > > set prefix

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Casey Daniels
Thanks for the info, but followed the instructions and as usual I get the grub rescue prompt which is a total different issue and question. But I tried what I have been trying to get the normal boot menu up set prefix(hd0,??) insmod normal normal now its saying no such partition. I ls at the

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Thursday 26 September 2013 19:51:05 Geoff Swan wrote: > 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. Read http://www.linux-archiv

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Geoff Swan
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

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Thomas de Roo
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 Dani