[Voyage-linux] Can't boot from USB flash drive

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Danny,

See this thread, just talk about it yesterday. ;-)
    http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2006-May/000898.html

But I am not sure you can boot from USB successfully.  If you have 
successful experience on boot voyage from USB, please share with us.

- Punky

Danny Adair wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed a plain vanilla voyage-0.2 on a usb flash drive on sda
> (sda1 is ext2) on my host.
> When I boot from it (on the target computer) I get:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.   Try passing init= option
> to the kernel
>
> I also see that hda was detected. The target computer has a hard disk
> but I don't want to use it at all. I want to boot and work only off
> the usb key.
>
> README says:
> 4.4 Known Issues ======================
> - There is a problem reported when installing voyage over usb device
> using ub kernel module. Moreover, it is assumed that voyage is
> installed in /dev/hda1 of the target platform.
>
> Any ideas? I couldn't find the problem report in the archives.
> I suspect that LILO needs to be configured differently but a) I don't
> know much about lilo and b) there is /etc/lilo.conf
> /etc/lilo.conf.voyage and /etc/lilo.install.conf and I don't know
> which one to change.
>
> I changed hda to sda and hda1 to sda1 on all of them but to no avail.
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny
> danny at adair.net
>
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