Failed booting from USB stick

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 16 April 2010 16:27:56 Goh Lip wrote:
> On 04/16/2010 09:27 PM, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for all the efforts - I'm on the brink of giving up getting this
> > to work but it would be cool to have a portable linux-on-a-stick system.
> > Luckily my CD-rw that I thought was toast decided to wake up to life
> > again so at least I'm able to burn and boot new install discs.
> 
> You're right. you've got a *livecd installation* at your usb not a
> normal install. To get a normal install , install like normal but put in
> the usb partition.
> 
> But...again, I personally think it's not worthwhile to set kubuntu at
> usb. The transfer speed for usb transfer is too slow to make it any fun.
> A leaner distro like knoppix, puppy or dsl may be okay and fun to take
> around, but I've not done that for some time.
> 
> 
> Anyway, if you want to just test-run livecd with the speed of a hd
> install, (but not portable!)..put the livecd iso at hd and access using
> grub2 menuentry as follows, in my example....
> 
> menuentry "Livecd  " {
> 	loopback loop (hd0,10)/pop/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 	linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper
> iso-scan/filename=/pop/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso noprompt noeject
> quiet splash
> 	initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
> }
> 
> 
> menuentry "SysResCd" {
>          loopback loop (hd0,10)/pop/systemrescuecd-x86-1.5.2.iso
>          linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64
> isoloop=/pop/systemrescuecd-x86-1.5.2.iso setkmap=us docache
>          initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
> }
> 
> 
> An interesting thing about this is, unlike live cd from cdrom, you can
> make changes stick by making a partition and labeling it casper-rw AND
> putting 'persistent rw' at the end of the linux line of the grub entry.
> 
> Thought you might want to know this in case you are interested in trying
> out.
> 
> 
> Okay then, Thomas. Good Luck - Goh Lip

Didn't know you could do that. It sounds cool and I will definitely experiment 
with that. Thanks for all the help Goh and have a great weekend :-)

-- 
Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen