Re: Completely USB media based system?
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:12:16PM -0500, vr wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:53 -0500, Pobega wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer?
> > Seems like it would be pretty simple to do in partman.
>
> That's what I've been trying but after I reboot the installed system I
> get:
>
> root (hd1,0)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
> kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet
> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> which doesn't make sense (to me) because the install seems to go fine and
> the devices are bootable, marked bootable, recognized in the BIOS, etc. Any
> insight is appreciated. :-)
>
You might want to try configuring grub with UUID instead of /dev/sdXN
Who knows if grub is really looking at your USB disk when it's trying to
find /dev/sdb1
-Rob
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