| 1 |
On 6 October 2015 18:55:25 CEST, "João Miguel" <jmcf125@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
| 2 |
>> Did you try other USB sticks, which you know work in other machines, |
| 3 |
>> in that one machine ? Otherwise, it mb something awry in that |
| 4 |
>machine. |
| 5 |
>Yes I did. As I said, I had such a USB stick with Arch Linux installed, |
| 6 |
>and it worked there just fine. In fact, I tried just now (to make sure, |
| 7 |
>though with a recovery drive, uses isolinux), and it's ok. Note there |
| 8 |
>are really 3 levels of "working": |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
>1 - works flawlessly - only VM for this pen |
| 11 |
>2 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk on the 1st attempt to mount root, |
| 12 |
>works after waiting a few seconds and trying again (not waiting enough |
| 13 |
>gives an error again) |
| 14 |
>3 - initrd doesn't recognize the disk ever (I went up to 5 mins, sounds |
| 15 |
>more than enough) |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
>That PC is in 3. But any other disk I tried so far works. And I never |
| 18 |
>had this error before, with any sort of pen, including the Gentoo |
| 19 |
>recovery/install pen which supposedly uses genkernel as I do here, but |
| 20 |
>somehow initrd always works with it (case 1). |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
>The fact that 2 does happen for every other PC says there is actually |
| 23 |
>something awry, but I think it's with the initrd. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
>The thing is that BIOS knows the pen is there, syslinux also detects it |
| 26 |
>right away and knows where the root partition is with UUID, and still |
| 27 |
>the initrd can't figure it out right away? |
| 28 |
> |
| 29 |
>Best regards, |
| 30 |
>João Miguel |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
Possible causes: |
| 33 |
1. USB stick doesn't work as boot device |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
2. USB port is not supported by kernel |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
3. You don't use root_delay as boot option |
| 38 |
-- |
| 39 |
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
Archives