[Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails

[David Leeming]

Martin,

Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result. 

This is what I did using an Ubuntu 7 machine (same with the other stick):



DOWNLOAD mkusbinstall

- went to the page with the mkusbinstall, clicked on "raw" and then saved
the page that came up as "mkusbinstall"

- made the file executable 



SET UP BOOTABLE USB STICK

- insert 2GB USB drive previously formatted with Windows (FAT)
- start Partition editor, delete the existing partition

- Create new partition using all the space

- Try format to ext2 - partition editor fails
- Use Fdisk to create new p partition, plus toggle boot flag 
- Return to Partition editor and format, it succeeds (but suspiciously
quickly - only 5-10 seconds)



RUN MKUSBINSTALL
- Run mkusbinstall from a folder with the OS image also inside

- It succeeds, but with errors (see attached screen shot)

- boot USB in the machine which I want to install the XS

- get the error below:

 

EXTLINUX 3.36 Debian-2007-08-30 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin


Could not find kernel image: linux
boot:



I may not be partitioning it correctly, apologies I am a beginner with Linux
and probably made a stupid mistake. Appreciate yr patience!

 

David



--- On Mon, 16/2/09, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mkusbinstall running but...
To: "David Leeming" <leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Pia Waugh" <greebo at pipka.org>
Received: Monday, 16 February, 2009, 11:10 AM

Hi David,

- You seem to be suffering from a bad USB stick.

- Please, let's get these things back on the list :-) You are getting
reasonably good answers, perhaps not easy to understand, but we can
help with that too.

cheers,


m

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:07 PM, David Leeming
<leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au <about://mc/compose?to=leemingdavid@yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
> Pia,
>
> Finally worked out how to create a bootable USB stick, and mkusbinstall
> running. It does copy the live image to the disk. It reports "USB stick
set
> up as install image"
>
> However, some errors are reported, and when I try the stick in the server
> machine it reports
>
> Could not find kernel image: linux
> boot:
>
> I have attached a screen shot of the mkusbinstall errors
>
> 
>
> David
>
>
>
> --- On Sat, 14/2/09, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org
<about://mc/compose?to=greebo@pipka.org> > wrote:
>
> From: Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org <about://mc/compose?to=greebo@pipka.org>
>
> Subject: Re: EBox on the way
> To: "David Leeming" <leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au
<about://mc/compose?to=leemingdavid@yahoo.com.au> >
> Cc: iant at spc.int <about://mc/compose?to=iant@spc.int> 
> Received: Saturday, 14 February, 2009, 2:32 PM
>
>
> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
>
> Hi David,
>
> <quote who="David Leeming">
>
>> -bash: mkusbinstall: command not found
>
> You need to have the mkusbinstall executable. Download from:
>
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software
>
> and then on the command line run it by change directories into the
directory
> with the mkusbinstall executable and run ./mkusbinstall ... as you were.
>
>> What am I doing wrong? Can I just copy the iso into the usb stick /iso
>> folder using windows?
>
> No, because then it is just a file on a usb key, not a bootable stick.
>
> Cheers,
> Pia
>
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