hang on initrd.gz

Forum: USB booting
Topic: hang on initrd.gz
started by: boota

Posted by boota on Sep. 28 2005,19:12

Hi,

I have created a DSL usb key that boots on a desktop machine that I have just fine- so I know the key is at least a little sane. It was created with the DSL iso, then create a key technique.

So, I take the same key to boot it up on my ibm T42 laptop and it just hangs at the "Loading initrd.gz" stage (probably 14 .'s in).

Any tricks/techniques/issues I should know about to fix this issue?

thanks

Posted by boota on Sep. 29 2005,11:39

For the record, the solution to this was to upgrade and use syslinux 3.11. Pretty simple actually, download from < http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux > the zip. Unzip. In win32 run syslinux X: where X: is the drive the usbkey is mapped to. Viola.

I've at least gotten past the initrd.gz hang problem...onto others.

Posted by doobit on Sep. 29 2005,15:53

thanks!