Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > > > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > >> I can't seem to get the disk label working r

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Jake Moe
On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > > > >> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that >> I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, >> if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Jake Moe
On 09/22/10 17:02, Al wrote: >> And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I >> found these in the Gentoo Wiki: >> USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install >> Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: > Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, > if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not > found, but sda1 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread Al
> > And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I > found these in the Gentoo Wiki: > USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install > Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo > > Unfortunately, both use genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread Jake Moe
On 21/09/10 17:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: >> On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > >>> Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to >>> boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. >>> Not even when I played with

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: > On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to > > boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. > > Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself. > > I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-20 Thread Jake Moe
On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: >> On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: >> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: > >> On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > >>> Jake Moe wrote: > Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. > > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread Al
> Ah, I see.  For this test, I have a second PC that I've unplugged the > hard drive from.  And it's hard drive currently has a work Windows image > on it, anyway, so it's definitely not booting from that.  :-) > I assume you have already tested it with a different USB stick and on the other machi

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread Jake Moe
On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: >> On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: >>> Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: > On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > > Jake Moe wrote: > >> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. > >> > >> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in > >> question). It just doesn't exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Jake Moe
On 16/09/10 09:04, Al wrote: >> As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. > Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. > The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different > name for it in german and use concretus more in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Al
> As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different name for it in german and use concretus more in the original sense. > > If you're as

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Jake Moe
On 16/09/10 08:18, Al wrote: >> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in >> question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows >> that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not >> sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing i

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Jake Moe
On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: >> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. >> >> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in >> question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows >> that it's mounted, and /sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Al
> > As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in > question).  It just doesn't exist for some reason.  However, fstab shows > that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not > sure why it's dropped out.  I'm guessing it has something to do with > ude

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Dale
Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread Jake Moe
On 15/09/10 20:10, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:34:33AM +1000, Jake Moe wrote: >> On 15/09/10 04:28, YoYo Siska wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 10 Septe

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:34:33AM +1000, Jake Moe wrote: > On 15/09/10 04:28, YoYo Siska wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: > >>On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 > >>J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> > >>>On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > O

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 15/09/10 04:28, YoYo Siska wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: Hello all, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-14 Thread YoYo Siska
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > > > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > > > >> Hello all, > > > >> > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > > >> Hello all, > > >> > > >> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install > > >> and re

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Al
> > If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1.  However, mount shows > /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder > in that as well.  It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it > somehow. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?  Any h

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: > On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > > 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and > >> rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moe: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/9/10 Jake Moe : >  Hello all, > > I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue > purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could).  I've mostly followed the > Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no > swap).  I've used genkern

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-09 Thread Jake Moe
Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can