-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi > > Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are > going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops > Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of them the 4Gb ones (came > at the right price) . > > I used fdisk on them then formatted them vfat for use in the car > work fine now . > When I saw this, I couldn't believe it. A little fdisk action? That's all this takes? Well, almost. Yes, it booted off the thumb drive. I didn't get the DOS label right. And there's obviously something I'm not understanding about how this comes up, because the shell was actually kinda familiar, which is not what I was expecting. I should explain that there's a change from when I originally posed this question. I realized--or at least the way I understood this page <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media>--I needed to use the slightly more complicated method involving the syslinux bootloader. This is a UEFI system--and I don't think it will boot anything else--so I also copied the entire extracted ISO tree onto the thumb drive, meaning especially to include EFI. But the boot fell back to the interactive prompt because /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201304 didn't appear. dosfslabel is my friend. Whatever problems I may yet encounter with this install, they will be different problems. Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRaPrIAAoJELJhbl/uPb4SHuMP/0BFABnUBUT42ABamfS+hPUs 8rZ34P5vePhIsmEr4e2UDEBFBu2H666GvmO9MCNvraXAIVbmszrJEjikkaFMkroJ 9+u9fooXo2BPJDub4dThop6Z4f7l4Wrxw1glgIySM8MZXbOSx0EPuiWrdOa2SzkN i9VEtR/JG0WGFrhVLcdxPEBHFdoBNwFnVDyIcoiuuvj1UgbXc86mPnEd73Pr+Xpu pQkY1NxkWYRKnjpVt8RZbyE/187OnJueFl1oIi3fOzGA6NbITxfO6vfxmhGfJHTG 8cmFfi4v541bqPvRJiduUD0JJ6s/bj9hYDICkGIFr5yiHXBnSqubfVLVAv/kyhrM 23O7YtPi0asqstKv1XSGIO0ci8GhVKKpD2JHM4eR7cDBUhvh57sVzR1RQEVjfWN/ nWzqtaSLwBaz7jT3JyJDIGOZkl2rrdYeXeptGCv1h2xKJ4H1yzQWWh1qVMCDQ58O kjQSHJqLHXL4CN35Ec9X8nt22WxJQaEBy4oUeFNoEu6w4mBUHJcVNslivRugb/iO /7bXccwddCTe0acxD6th/jv9K6xQBMMfrXoUzoaZJGCJsxWo2YUUx3nMaGidwBWz 2Z4ASZk2Bu7qPJs6sumtWPVmU8vpIaKp8J0o5ymBNijnGcwP3Wz95I3q4GzSrQEt bI+ZCERRkDBGqVlhrjFj =7kDy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
