Booting a snappy thumb drive

[Michael Terry]

As a follow-up, yup.  alpha3 works, and doesn't need the qcow2 workaround I
mentioned in my first email.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Alexander Sack <asac at canonical.com> 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
>
> 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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