Problem by installing to USBForum: USB booting Topic: Problem by installing to USB started by: MaxG Posted by MaxG on Nov. 30 2005,14:05
Hello everybody,I do not get DSL installed on my USB Stick. I tried to mount the stick before install but it did not work either... When i try the DSL USB Pendrive Installation i get the following error messages: DSL pendrive BIOS boot FAT USB_HDD install/update. 1. Your BIOS must support USB-HDD booting. 2. A single FAT partition will be made. 3. Backup/Restore will be pre setup. 4. Do not have your pendrive mounted. No responsibility for data loss or hardware damage! Enter the device name of pendrive.(EXAMPLE: sda): DSL Is this an installation or upgrade? (i,u) i Use DSL iso from [L]iveCD, from [F]ile, from [W]eb. (l/f/w): l List boot options: Example: vga=normal toram ssh nfs syslog lpd monkey ftp: Choose language/keyboard if other than english: Example: cs da de es fr nl it pl ru sk: de Ready to proceed. (y/..)? y Last change to exit before destroying all data on /dev/DSL Continue (y/..)? y Writing zero's to beginning of /dev/DSL Done. Partitioning /dev/DSL /dev/DSL not supported by hdparm Formatting /dev/DSL1 0+1 records in 0+1 records out Applying syslinux to pendrive partition. /dev/DSL1: No such file or directory Setting up system image on /mnt/DSL1...mkdir: Cannot create directory `/mnt/pendrive': File exists mount: special device /dev/DSL1 does not exist Error mounting usb device Press Enter key to continue. ------------------------- And with grep scsi -A 3 I get the following: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: USB Model: Flash Disk Rev: 2.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda1 Thanks for any help on how to solve this problem. Max Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 30 2005,18:54
This means that your stick is a 1GB drive and it is located at device name "sda"So type in "sda" at the device name of pendrive prompt, not "DSL" Posted by pwillis on Dec. 02 2005,02:09
[So type in "sda" at the device name of pendrive prompt, not "DSL"]Actually, I have this same problem and I am using the correct device. Anyone have any other ideas? Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 03 2005,04:44
Make sure that your device name is really sdaAlso, make sure that you use lowercase letters sda NOT SDA Posted by MaxG on Dec. 05 2005,14:42
Thanks for all the replies, Now i can install the USB - Key. Max Posted by redshift on Dec. 05 2005,16:00
I am having the same proplem as above I am typing sda at the prompt and the install cant find the drive. I am using a 1 gig sandisk cruser mini. any tip? Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 05 2005,23:29
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in a terminal window to find your stick's device name. It might be "sda" or "sdb" or some other name. Posted by redSHIFT on Dec. 07 2005,13:51
OK I have and this is what i get: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP -- hdb: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: TSSTcorp Model: CD/DVDW TS-L532A Rev: QG52 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub SO....! Now what? my USB drive lights up (if that is significant) Posted by redSHIFT on Dec. 07 2005,14:07
Also my bios is set to boot from USBI had a thumbdrive app suite installed on the USB drive and when I would leave it in the computer and reboot is would try to boot from the stick. This is in Winxp Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 07 2005,17:53
This tells me that your CD/DVD drive was detected at devicename sr0But there is no mention of your USB drive. For example, when I have my Sandisk 1GB Cruzer Mini, I see this info:
Maybe your USB controller is not working correctly. If you type: lsmod you should see a uhci, ohci or ehci driver module present, and with your drive plugged in you should see usb-storage present. You can also see this on the Modules tab of the System Stats program. Posted by redSHIFT on Dec. 08 2005,15:29
OK I typed lsmod and near the bottom of the list it shows usb-storage 61952 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21516 0(unused) usbcore 58016 1[hid usb-storage usb-uhci] I am assuming that the zeros mean that the drive is not being recognized Any thoughts on what to try next? Bios update? This is a Gateway 680 portable. I would try another drive but I'm in mainland China , not very easy for me. Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 08 2005,18:03
Hmm..usb-storage is the driver for USB mass storge devices, and usb-uhci is the USB 1.1 speed driver for UHCI controllers. Maybe you can try manually loading the USB2.0 driver from a terminal window: sudo su modprobe ehci-hcd and then plug your USB drive in and wait a few seconds for it to register. Then try the dmesg command again to see if your drive has been found. Also, try different physical USB ports if your computer has more than 1 port. Posted by redSHIFT on Dec. 09 2005,17:40
after a couple trys I was able install USB HDD and it looked successful. Then booting from usb it says Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping to a very limited shell. press reset button to quit. So I used cfdisk /dev/sda to partion the drive into a bootable 350mb linux partition and 650mb fat32 partition and then installed DSL USBHDD again. It failed again in the same way when trying to boot from the stick. now what do you think? Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 09 2005,23:03
Try DSL 2.1 RC1It has a fix for the boottime automatic loadup of the ehci-hcd module |