On 6 October 2015 18:55:25 CEST, "João Miguel" <jmcf...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >> Did you try other USB sticks, which you know work in other machines, >> in that one machine ? Otherwise, it mb something awry in that >machine. >Yes I did. As I said, I had such a USB stick with Arch Linux installed, >and it worked there just fine. In fact, I tried just now (to make sure, >though with a recovery drive, uses isolinux), and it's ok. Note there >are really 3 levels of "working": > >1 - works flawlessly - only VM for this pen >2 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk on the 1st attempt to mount root, >works after waiting a few seconds and trying again (not waiting enough >gives an error again) >3 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk ever (I went up to 5 mins, sounds >more than enough) > >That PC is in 3. But any other disk I tried so far works. And I never >had this error before, with any sort of pen, including the Gentoo >recovery/install pen which supposedly uses genkernel as I do here, but >somehow initrd always works with it (case 1). > >The fact that 2 does happen for every other PC says there is actually >something awry, but I think it's with the initrd. > >The thing is that BIOS knows the pen is there, syslinux also detects it >right away and knows where the root partition is with UUID, and still >the initrd can't figure it out right away? > >Best regards, >João Miguel
Possible causes: 1. USB stick doesn't work as boot device 2. USB port is not supported by kernel 3. You don't use root_delay as boot option -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
