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Create multiboot live usb stick, boots openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu clones iso images
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Booting live-fat-stick partition #3

Closed bobwya closed 11 years ago

bobwya commented 11 years ago

I'm trying to boot OpenSUSE 12.2 / 12.3 DVD images on a USB flash drive. However my BIOS is ignoring the USB stick when I try to boot from it.

In qemu I am able to boot OpenSUSE from the USB stick by specifying the partition device (i.e. /dev/sda1). However this results in a kernel panic during the plymouth sequence... qemu won't boot the USB stick if I specify the device only (i.e. /dev/sda). So it appears only the partitions are bootable directly - not the device itself...

So anyway I tried different setup. Basically chain-loading 2x FAT32 partitions for OpenSUSE 12.2 & 12.3 (primary partitions 2 & 3 on the USB stick) using Burg from the multiboot primary partition 1 - also FAT32 (created using Multisystem http://liveusb.info/dotclear/).

I tried: menuentry "openSUSE 12.2 (64-bit) KDE Desktop" --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --group group_main { insmod=fat set root='(hd0,2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 944E-73F1 drivemap -s (hd0) $root chainloader +1 }

menuentry "openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) KDE Desktop" --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --group group_main { insmod=fat set root='(hd0,3)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 946A-4030 drivemap -s (hd0) $root chainloader +1 }

The kernel loads from the 12.2 installer... However it drops to a ncurses installer and complains it can't find the repository information...

I'm using Arch (64-bit) and using live-fat-stick Git Master (latest/last commit was Mon Feb 25 11:05:31 2013).

Any thoughts?

Thanks Robert

cyberorg commented 11 years ago

Live-fat-stick works with live cd/dvd images only, not on installation dvd.

Let me know if you have any issues live images, not sure we can do anything about bios ignoring the stick.

Cheers

-j On Apr 11, 2013 3:23 AM, "bobwya" notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm trying to boot OpenSUSE 12.2 / 12.3 DVD images on a USB flash drive. However my BIOS is ignoring the USB stick when I try to boot from it.

In qemu I am able to boot OpenSUSE from the USB stick by specifying the partition device (i.e. /dev/sda1). However this results in a kernel panic during the plymouth sequence... qemu won't boot the USB stick if I specify the device only (i.e. /dev/sda). So it appears only the partitions are bootable directly - not the device itself...

So anyway I tried different setup. Basically chain-loading 2x FAT32 partitions for OpenSUSE 12.2 & 12.3 (primary partitions 2 & 3 on the USB stick) using Burg from the multiboot primary partition 1 - also FAT32 (created using Multisystem http://liveusb.info/dotclear/).

I tried: menuentry "openSUSE 12.2 (64-bit) KDE Desktop" --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --group group_main { insmod=fat set root='(hd0,2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 944E-73F1 drivemap -s (hd0) $root chainloader +1 }

menuentry "openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) KDE Desktop" --class opensuse --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --group group_main { insmod=fat set root='(hd0,3)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 946A-4030 drivemap -s (hd0) $root chainloader +1 }

The kernel loads from the 12.2 installer... However it drops to a ncurses installer and complains it can't find the repository information...

I'm using Arch (64-bit) and using live-fat-stick Git Master (latest/last commit was Mon Feb 25 11:05:31 2013).

Any thoughts?

Thanks Robert

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bobwya commented 11 years ago

The BIOS on the laptop doesn't give me any grief (unlike many which do :-) ) - like I said qemu doesn't recognise it as bootable (and that's on a different desktop machine)... I'm still getting the hang of this stuff!!

Anyway, sorry I just assumed your script would be able to handle the installer (DVD) image as well... It's really annoying that I can't find a way to get the SUSE installer image to play ball in a multiboot setup. Just now I've one USB stick with practically everything on it - that I need (Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Parted Magic, etc.) - but the SUSE installer is the main one I have to dd to a separate stick (or in fact 2 since I need 12.2 to deal with the ATI Catalyst train wreck support for the 4xxx series and 12.3 for Nvidia)... Thanks