Allan Duncan via luv-main <[email protected]> writes: > I have a number of bootable USB sticks, all 32 bit. These work fine > on all my boxes, and work quite well with the one box that will > actually _boot_ USB3. > > I would like to do a 64 bit variant of this and just tweaked an > existing system to fit onto a 16 G USB stick. This starts off booting > and then times out because it can't find the root device. > Delving around in the minimalist emergency environment shows that the > USB device is indeed not present - blkid shows all the other devices. > The normal boot uses UUID identifiers and non-EFI. > > The kernel in the initramfs has all the USB drivers builtin. > Btw - is there an easy way to unpick initramfs - I found I needed to > lop off the uncompressed leading cpio to get at the gzipped cpio > filesystem that followed?
First of all we need to know what distro this is. Debian (initramfs-tools) & Fedora (dracut) ramdisks work very differently. I've never seen the "lop off" part you describe on Debian. (I negligible experience with other ramdisks.) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
