Hi everybody,

first, i must apologise, but i'm a strict absolute beginner in linux world, and my english is'nt better .

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 "

many thanks for your help.

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

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>?

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,

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

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