Booting a snappy thumb drive

Alexander Sack asac at canonical.com
Wed Mar 18 19:55:58 UTC 2015


Hi,

we support bare metal since alpha-03 ...

Download it here and it should just work (TM):

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/alpha-3/ubuntu-core-WEBDM-alpha-03_amd64-generic.img.xz

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Michael Terry
<michael.terry at canonical.com> wrote:
> FYI, if you want to boot a thumb drive containing the snappy alpha image,
> you can't use dd directly.  You need to convert it from qcow2 format:
>
> sudo qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw ubuntu-core-alpha-02_amd64-virt.img
> /dev/sdb
>
> (Though trying to boot this on my laptop gives me some sort of kernel panic.
> Looking into it.  Any guesses?)
>
> -mt
>
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