Re: [opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk
basically you have to manually tell the BIOS to boot from the USB disk.... the last time I made an install on a USB drive, before rebooting the first time I did create a new initrd file to tell the kernel to load the usb modules and be able to mount the root partition from the USB drive (I do remember to add usb_storage,sg,sbp2 and others) if you don't create the new initrd, there is a chance that your installation won't boot.... to fix it, use a rescue system, chroot to your installation and create the new initrd best Regards Victor Prada On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:12 -0500, Jose wrote:
First thing to check if the computer you are trying to boot up supports usb bootup, when yu are booting up, you may see a meesage "press esc/f8" or something like that to select boot up device, that usually brings up a small menu where you can select which device to boot from, if USB is available select it and that should make your system to boot up from the usb drive.
Jan Albrecht wrote:
Hi all,
I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal disc drive in my company notebook. Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB drive? Currently it just tells me "Missing operrating system". Thanks Jan
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Hi, sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is. I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just produces the "Missing Operating System" error. Jan Victor Prada wrote:
basically you have to manually tell the BIOS to boot from the USB disk.... the last time I made an install on a USB drive, before rebooting the first time I did create a new initrd file to tell the kernel to load the usb modules and be able to mount the root partition from the USB drive (I do remember to add usb_storage,sg,sbp2 and others)
if you don't create the new initrd, there is a chance that your installation won't boot.... to fix it, use a rescue system, chroot to your installation and create the new initrd
best Regards Victor Prada
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:12 -0500, Jose wrote:
First thing to check if the computer you are trying to boot up supports usb bootup, when yu are booting up, you may see a meesage "press esc/f8" or something like that to select boot up device, that usually brings up a small menu where you can select which device to boot from, if USB is available select it and that should make your system to boot up from the usb drive.
Jan Albrecht wrote:
Hi all,
I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal disc drive in my company notebook. Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB drive? Currently it just tells me "Missing operrating system". Thanks Jan
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On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:41:04 am Jan Albrecht wrote:
Hi,
sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is. I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just produces the "Missing Operating System" error.
Jan
See if this or links listed at the bottom of article can help: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick ... -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jan Albrecht a écrit :
Hi,
sorry for the misunderstanding: Booting from USB itself is not the problem, but I think writing the correct grub files is. I can boot via F9 from my USB disc, but when the notebook tries it just produces the "Missing Operating System" error.
did you look here? http://en.opensuse.org/Installing_SuSE_on_External_USB_Drive it's probably only a "bootable flagg" not set on the right partition jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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