Dubman Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Hi everybody, first, i must apologise, but i'm a strict absolute beginner in linux world, and my english is'nt better :unsure: . I was pleased to find mcnlive delft, that works perfectly if i boot on cd but i wasn't able to générate a mcnlive usb key. I got this message: "error : problem installing bootloader : /dev/sdb1 : no such file or directory " :mellow: many thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubman Posted April 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Is there anyone to help me ? I've had a look at my usb key (under windows), the files are: boot.cat initrd.gz livecd.msg livecd.sqfs livecd_F1.msg livecd_F2.msg splash.msg syslinux.cfg vmlinuz that'all. Why can i not boot with key ? thanks for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 since you looked at it under windows I'm assuming you had it FORMATTED FAT? Was that FAT 16 or FAT32? I have ehard from some folks that they have found a difference. Most importantly is the partition set as ACTIVE? that was an issue I had in the begining. last but not least when you booted from the CD were you able to SEE the USB stick from the MCNL that was running>? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubman Posted April 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 (edited) under windows xp, i can only format my usb key in fat or fat32 mode. i just tried a few minutes ago, and i get this message : error : unable to mount loop filesystem; command were : loopsetup /dev/loop0 initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop0 initrd/loopfs dropping you to a limited shell and it stop i don't understand, i hav'nt got any bad message during the usbkey creation but i can see the key using mcnlive toronto from cd. Thanks for your help, Edited April 4, 2008 by Dubman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 that looks like a slightly different error than before, that one LOOKS like it could still be trying to go to your CDROM. to give a little more detail, there is a special file system, developed just for "live cd's called "squashFS" its a compressed file syste, and it LOOKS like it is still trying to load it from the CDROM, which leads me to a few ideas. #1 reformat the USB in FAT and make sure the partition is active #2 check your BIOS and make sure that it's set to BOOT from your USB. In my LAPTOP, mine shows up under the HARD DRIVE section, in my desktop it shows a seperate listing for USB devices. #3 do we KNOW for sure that this PC is ABLE to boot from the USB Maybe you should TRY to boot from the CDROM, I believe that one of the selections on that menu is to THEN boot from USB. IF that works, at least THEN you know that the USB key is ok. I do remember my original days of working w/ MCNL were harder than I thought they should be, but now it pretty much runs on auto pilot for me. I do have a step by step text file located here http://www.thehess.org/Rollyourown1.html that might help you out. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubman Posted April 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 (edited) Hi, thanks for your help. first, i must give you precision : the key turned with another distro (home made by a friend) on my dell inspiron 6000, but i made the error formating it in order to change the distribution. So, i've a look to some posts that said i had to modify the boot with this syntax : livecd irqpoll noapic. I would like to try that, but i don't know where and what modify. Syslinux.cfg ? In wich i have : default livecd prompt 1 timeout 150 display splash.msg label livecd kernel vmlinuz append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 vga=788 keyb=us fromusb label safeboot kernel vmlinuz append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=off vga=normal keyb=us noapic nolapic nopcmcia nomce unionfs=no fromusb label lenovo kernel vmlinuz append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 keyb=us vga=788 fromusb irqpoll noapic label vesa kernel vmlinuz append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 keyb=us vga=788 fromusb olddetect vesa Edited April 7, 2008 by Dubman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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