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On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 07:19:59 PM João Miguel wrote: |
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> How do I know if any of these happen? |
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> > Possible causes: |
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> > 1. USB stick doesn't work as boot device |
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> Well, it did with Arch, the boot partition has the boot, legacy_boot and |
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> esp flags. Plus if anything was to be problematic, I'd assume it would |
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> be BIOS or syslinux detection of the drive bootable device, not mounting. |
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Ok, so scratch that one. |
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> > 2. USB port is not supported by kernel |
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> I'm not sure what you mean. Is there any option I should enable for |
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> genkernel? I read on the Wiki page that |
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It works with Arch, are you using the same kernel options now with Gentoo? |
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> > 3. You don't use root_delay as boot option |
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> If that's what I think it is, I tell syslinux to wait 5 seconds. |
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How do you tell it that? |
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> It does |
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> work. In every computer. It's when it starts loading modules and all, |
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> reaching the point where initrd needs to mount the root device that it |
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> gives an error. I don't know how to tell it to wait there though. And as |
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> I said, even if I did, it wouldn't work on all computers, on some initrd |
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> cant figure it out at all. |
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I never used an initrd when building my own USB sticks. |
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I was talking about: |
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rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to |
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mount the root filesystem |
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(See the file "kernel-parameters.txt" in the kernel Documentation) |
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> > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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> No problem, thanks for the response. I'm just baffled with this error. |
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> João Miguel |
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That's a default signature... :) |
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