It seems that the canonical instructions for making a bootable USB flash drive that runs memtest are at:
[URL]
However, after following them to a T, I boot up the new machine and get:
"could not find kernel image: linux"
Do I need to set up a lilo.conf first?
I would like to boot Ubuntu 8.04 i386 from my USB flash drive. [URL] I took following steps:
1) made sure that usb_storage.ko kernel module is loaded
Code:
root@martin-desktop:~# lsmod | grep -i storage
usb_storage 39585 1
root@martin-desktop:~#
2) inserted USB flash drive
Code:
root@martin-desktop:~# tail -n0 -f /var/log/messages
Jan 29 01:43:23 martin-desktop kernel: [440650.637531] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
Jan 29 01:43:23 martin-desktop kernel: [440650.776107] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[code].....
When I set "USB flash drive" as a first bootable device in BIOS, I get SYSLINUX "boot:" prompt and it loads both "vmlinuz" and "initrd.gz", but finally I end up in BusyBox prompt and following message:
Quote:
"Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell!"
Last boot message which I see is "Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0".what might cause such behavior? Did I miss anything while preparing USB flash drive?
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HOW can I do that in LINUX, specially Debian 6.01 (my current version) I googled it and found a bunch of sites all offering answers.
NONE worked for me, I saw an option in a Slackware installation with a "make bootable USB stick option".
(It can be used as a rescue USB Stick also) We don't have that in Debian. How can I do that with my current Debian install?
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I'm just interested if there does exist any utility for creating bootable flash drives? I mean, if I could make somehow LiveCD with KDE desktop on openSUSE? I used Ubuntu and it had it's own utility with nice GUI, it just needed any bootable .ISO file or bootable CD/DVD and it created LiveCD on USB flash drive. So is there any chance to find something similar?
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I've looked all over the place for the utility that will create a bootable flash drive. Can anybody tell me what the name of it is?
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Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=8168931328)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 0, size 657457152, type 0x00)
new part entry
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Is there a reason why we cant make proper paragraphs? Is this site strapped for bandwidth or something? Is the site just acting funny?
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