Centrist
April 29th, 2009, 04:51 AM
I'm trying to take the Ubuntu 9.04 ISO and extract it to a bootable flash drive. I want to add a few other ISOs after this one, so I'm doing it manually, but I can't seem to get the right config.
Grub is installed in the flash drive's MBR and boots just fine, but Ubuntu takes some time to load and then puts me at a BusyBox prompt. If I look around at the initramfs prompt, I can see casper.log has a lot of errors about not being able to find directories and "unable to find a medium containing a live file system" at the end.
I read through a ton of install guides and launchpad bug reports, but I couldn't find the solution. I saw one bug report for jaunty that said the patch was included in the daily build, but I got the same problem when I tried using it.
My Computer: Asus Eee 1000HE
My Flash drive: 2GB generic with one FAT32 partition
Bootloader: Used my Ubuntu box to install grub to the MBR
ISOs: I downloaded the daily-live 9.04 i386 iso
This is my menu.lst config:
default 0
timeout 15
title Ubuntu 9.04 i386 Live
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/vmlinuz file=/boot/ubuntu904-i386/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
initrd /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/initrd.gz
title Ubuntu 9.04 i386 Start or Install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/vmlinuz file=/boot/ubuntu904-i386/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
initrd /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/initrd.gz
title Memtest86+ (from Ubuntu 904 i386 image)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/install/mt86plus
You can see I took the isolinux text.cfg options from the ISO and converted it to use with grub. I have tried many variations on this, and I also tried using configs from some howtos, but no luck! Grub seems to be working just fine, and Memtest boots and runs with no problems.
I think my kernel boot options must be wrong, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Am I correct in thinking I can take the daily-live build, extract to a flash drive, and use grub to boot it?
Would really appreciate some help here.
Grub is installed in the flash drive's MBR and boots just fine, but Ubuntu takes some time to load and then puts me at a BusyBox prompt. If I look around at the initramfs prompt, I can see casper.log has a lot of errors about not being able to find directories and "unable to find a medium containing a live file system" at the end.
I read through a ton of install guides and launchpad bug reports, but I couldn't find the solution. I saw one bug report for jaunty that said the patch was included in the daily build, but I got the same problem when I tried using it.
My Computer: Asus Eee 1000HE
My Flash drive: 2GB generic with one FAT32 partition
Bootloader: Used my Ubuntu box to install grub to the MBR
ISOs: I downloaded the daily-live 9.04 i386 iso
This is my menu.lst config:
default 0
timeout 15
title Ubuntu 9.04 i386 Live
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/vmlinuz file=/boot/ubuntu904-i386/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
initrd /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/initrd.gz
title Ubuntu 9.04 i386 Start or Install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/vmlinuz file=/boot/ubuntu904-i386/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
initrd /boot/ubuntu904-i386/casper/initrd.gz
title Memtest86+ (from Ubuntu 904 i386 image)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/ubuntu904-i386/install/mt86plus
You can see I took the isolinux text.cfg options from the ISO and converted it to use with grub. I have tried many variations on this, and I also tried using configs from some howtos, but no luck! Grub seems to be working just fine, and Memtest boots and runs with no problems.
I think my kernel boot options must be wrong, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Am I correct in thinking I can take the daily-live build, extract to a flash drive, and use grub to boot it?
Would really appreciate some help here.