usb drive not fully recognisedForum: USB booting Topic: usb drive not fully recognised started by: soinsg Posted by soinsg on April 19 2006,13:56
<background story>I just got a new 128mb drive and I'm trying to put DSL on it. My first attempt was in win xp, I copied the files from another usb drive, and ran syslinux.exe on the new one. That booted but stopped with some kernel panic about the file system. My second attempt was with a DSL 1.5 CD. I had a bit of an accident when the live cd loaded a backup file from the usb drive I forgot to take out. As a result most of fluxbox was mis-configured and I ended up fiddling with the install script through a terminal. I consider that all in the past as I have since reformatted my new usb drive with FAT in win xp and moved a test file onto it. </background story> The live cd won't recognise the usb drive properly. The usb install script fails and I can't access it with cfdisk (I was root the whole time). Here are some messages from dmesg: Unplug usb flash drive:
Plug it in:
Here's the output from the install script:
Posted by tecker on April 19 2006,16:02
Ah check that it is mounted at sda. On my system there is nothing else that would indicate that it would be on sdb but it was. When you run the install script have it output the info on your drive. There should be some bluegreen text that will say where it is mounted. The /mnt/pendrive makes me think you may have already had the system mounted. Check /dev/sdb and see if it is not mounted Posted by soinsg on April 19 2006,16:16
In the end I got the DSL 2.3 iso, used it with the Live CD vm for vmplayer (http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/02/livecd-player-virtual-machine.html). I suspect if I just rebooted it would have worked too.
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