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> Did you try other USB sticks, which you know work in other machines, |
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> in that one machine ? Otherwise, it mb something awry in that machine. |
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Yes I did. As I said, I had such a USB stick with Arch Linux installed, |
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and it worked there just fine. In fact, I tried just now (to make sure, |
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though with a recovery drive, uses isolinux), and it's ok. Note there |
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are really 3 levels of "working": |
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1 - works flawlessly - only VM for this pen |
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2 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk on the 1st attempt to mount root, |
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works after waiting a few seconds and trying again (not waiting enough |
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gives an error again) |
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3 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk ever (I went up to 5 mins, sounds |
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more than enough) |
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That PC is in 3. But any other disk I tried so far works. And I never |
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had this error before, with any sort of pen, including the Gentoo |
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recovery/install pen which supposedly uses genkernel as I do here, but |
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somehow initrd always works with it (case 1). |
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The fact that 2 does happen for every other PC says there is actually |
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something awry, but I think it's with the initrd. |
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The thing is that BIOS knows the pen is there, syslinux also detects it |
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right away and knows where the root partition is with UUID, and still |
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the initrd can't figure it out right away? |
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Best regards, |
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João Miguel |
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