Booting from a USB Drive

[Dazed_75]

Cool.  I never had a problem making a bootable installed on USB ubuntu.  But
I checked for that file anyway and did not find one which is why I asked.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:

> In Arch linux, that conf file is found in /etc so /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
> should do it.  I just inserted usb in the list of hook entries just
> following the autodetect item.  You should probably run mkinitcpio but
> I didn't know the exact parameters I might need so what I did as a
> lazy Arch Linux user  was to simply re-install the kernel26 package;
> that automatically regenerates the RAM disk image for us.  Then I
> rebooted and the damn thing worked! <smile>
>
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:47:21AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Fantastic!  And where did you find this mkinitcpio.conf? Was that in Arch
> > Linux?  Did you look in any others (sounds like not yet)?  And what did
> you
> > have to do after adding the usb entry (like remaster an iso, or ...)?
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > GOOD NEWS!!!
> > >
> > > I got it working.  I can now boot on this external drive without
> > > having to jump start from a live cd and chroot or any of that.
> > >
> > > It seems that my mkinitcpio.conf did not include 'usb' as one of the
> > > hooks for building the initial RAMFS image.  I figured the RAMFS was
> > > failing some how since the usb drive hadn't been formerly listed in
> > > the startup sequence.  So I added usb to the list of hooks and she's
> > > working now.  I don't know a whole lot about the insides of mkinitcpio
> > > or if this configuration is common accross most distros but I got mine
> > > working and I guess that's what really matters.
> > >
> > > Thanks to all of you for your helpful answers and ideas.
> > >
> > > Now off to fix my wireless challenge <smile>.
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