Re: [EXT] Re: Help booting from USB

Hi!

Can you please move your “USB boot problem” to an appropriate forum?

Maybe check “superuser.com” first.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Ulrich Windl

From: systemd-devel <systemd-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Feli Flitzberg
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 2:00 AM
Cc: systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EXT] Re: [systemd-devel] Help booting from USB

In the course of the day I managed to make everything boot from USB! Now I'll have to work on making the ISO. I don't have a premade image to work from, so wheee.

It turns out the issue was in the way dracut was building the initrd. Why wouldn't it include the kmod library by default...

Feli Flitzberg

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 17:54, <u34@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Feli Flitzberg <feliflitzberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to make a Linux from Scratch-based operating system boot using systemd-boot from USB. However, I've been stuck at getting the USB recognized during early boot, as the stick simply doesn't register if it has a GPT during the kernel's processes. I don't know if it's an issue with my kernel config, or with the standards used to boot from USB, or something else I've never used before. This is quite literally one of two hurdles left before I can make a proper release (the other being an ISO image). Where do I start looking for the problem?
>
> Feli Flitzberg

Does the bios/uefi firmaware/whichever you name it recognize the stick?
If it does, one option is as follows:
Can you successfuly boot another image, such as other people/distors/whatever,
as long as you can reasonbly assume many people on the internet successfuly
booted that image? Or, hopefully, that image has a forum/mailing list /whatever
to discuss booting it?
Hopefully, after being able to boot another image, you will be able to compare
that image to yours. Or better, compare the way that image is produced to
how you are making yours.

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u34