[ltp] Booting from USB stick

[nescivi]

Hi,

On Sunday 02 March 2008 15:18:22 Haines Brown wrote:
> > When the Thinkpad logo comes up during boot, press the blue Thinkpad
> > button above your keyboard. You will get a boot device menu - choose the
> > USB stick.
>
> Well, that was simple! Thanks for pointing me to the obvious.
>
> Grub on the usb-stick tries to load (so I'm halfway there), but hang:
>
>   Grub Loading Stage 1.5Read Error
>
> There's no error number printed, and so don't know which of the many
> errors in Stage 2 is the cause.
>
> One possibility is that the stage1 and stage2 files came from a debian
> etch machine, while I'm trying to boot a sidux machine. Could that
> cause a mismatch?
>
>   ##ISO boot
>   title sidux (fromISO + fromUSB)
>   kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2 boot=fll
>        fromhd=UUID=b4f48c83-75df-4a04-b28a-bbcccc24113f
>        fromiso nointro quiet vga=791 lang=us/fromiso
>   initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2

this does not look right.

it should look more like this:


title           sidux (fromISO + fromUSB)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2 boot=fll 
fromhd=UUID=b4f48c83-75df-4a04-b28a-bbcccc24113f fromiso nointro quiet 
vga=791 lang=us/fromiso
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23.12-slh-smp-2

So you were missing the "root" option, and the (hd0,0) in front of the path in 
initrd was misplaced.

sincerely,
Marije