Booting a snappy thumb drive

[Jamie Strandboge]

On 03/18/2015 02:55 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> 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
> 
I can't recall if there a plans to provide i386 generic images too. If so, what
is the status?

> 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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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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