Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-20 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/16/2010 02:42 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: this happens not just with your own image, but also with squeeze alpha2? Sorry about the delay. The squeeze alpha2 hybrid iso does not boot with the method I tried first (i.e. copy the contents of live into a directory on usb drive) However

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/16/2010 07:16 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > I was unsuccessful trying to boot this way so I ended up making a > usb-hdd image that boots without problem. this happens not just with your own image, but also with squeeze alpha2? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Bi

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-16 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/14/2010 02:08 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: live-boot, unless told otherwise with live-media-path, only looks in /live. either adjust the location, or use live-media-path. see man live-boot for more information. I did use live-media-path in my grub entry. menuentry "Debian Live" { lin

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/14/2010 04:04 AM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > mkdir /media/liveboot/debian_live > mount -o loop binary-hybrid.iso /mnt > cp /mnt/live/* /media/liveboot/debian_live (I checked the md5sums to from your live media point of view, filesystem.squashfs now resides in /debian_live where live-boot does

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-13 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > On 09/08/2010 09:17 PM, Richard Nelson wrote: > > Ok my guess is that if it works under qemu and not after you install > to usb stick, then perhaps something wrong with the usb steps. Can you > list them in detail? > > Thanks. >

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-13 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/08/2010 09:17 PM, Richard Nelson wrote: Ok my guess is that if it works under qemu and not after you install to usb stick, then perhaps something wrong with the usb steps. Can you list them in detail? Thanks. Here are the steps I used to install debian live to my usb stick (which has

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > On 09/07/2010 03:54 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> >> i remember that we fixed something related to the path some time ago, >> can you please try with the current version of live-boot+live-config? >> >> if you use live-helper from s

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-08 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/07/2010 03:54 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: i remember that we fixed something related to the path some time ago, can you please try with the current version of live-boot+live-config? if you use live-helper from sid, you only need to do: lh config -r live.debian.net and then rebuild.

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/07/2010 09:42 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > Thanks for clearing that up. I have live-initramfs version: > 1.156.1+1.157.2-1 i remember that we fixed something related to the path some time ago, can you please try with the current version of live-boot+live-config? if you use live-helper from s

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/07/2010 02:45 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: You have misunderstood. live-boot/live-config are *in the image itself*, not on your build system. likewise, live-initramfs (older incarnation of live-boot+live-config). Thanks for clearing that up. I have live-initramfs version: 1.156.1+1.157

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/07/2010 08:42 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > I am building on Ubuntu 10.04, so maybe that has > something to do with the problem. just to be sure: you're building *on* ubuntu, but you're building a debian image, not an ubuntu one. if so, then you should be fine. -- Address:Daniel Baum

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/07/2010 03:42 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: Apparently I'm not using either of them. I just grabbed live-helper and live-build from the sid repos and started working. I never realized that I needed anything else. I am building on Ubuntu 10.04, so maybe that has something to do with the proble

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Frank Zambrini
On 09/07/2010 02:11 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: it should work with that. what version of live-boot+live-config or live-initramfs are you using? Apparently I'm not using either of them. I just grabbed live-helper and live-build from the sid repos and started working. I never realized that I

Re: Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/07/2010 07:45 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > initrd /debian_live/initrd.img boot=live live-config xdebconf debug > live-media-path=/debian_live/ live-media=removable-usb > I read through the man page for live-initramfs and added the > "live-media-path=" and "live-media=" parameters, but the sy

Problems booting live system from usb

2010-09-07 Thread Frank Zambrini
Hi everyone, I'm unable to boot my lenny system from a usb drive. Testing with "qemu -cdrom binary-hybrid.iso" works so I know the image is not the problem. I have a usb stick that I boot multiple os's from, so rather than copy the entire image to the drive, I just copied the contents of /liv