Dubman

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

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,

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

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.