casper boot doesn't work with some boot options
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
I'm booting a system on a USB key from an old laptop having no bios option to boot from usb, nor bios recognition of usb at boot.
This is useful to install new ubuntu distros without burning CDs even on old and very old machines, avoiding producing trash.
The usb keys are obtained by ubuntu usb live creation on FAT32 usb keys (Karmic and Jaunty).
The method used is to boot a kernel and ram image previously copied on hard disk from USB in /boot/usb-boot directory, but using as root the usb key.
In any case I wasn't able to open the system as the live cd, asking for language and keyboard - I was only able to boot the system this way :
title Xubuntu from USB
uuid 26d5b9d3-
kernel /boot/usb-
initrd /boot/usb-
boot
where : 46F1-C9E3 is the uuid of the usb key.
floppy.
The system work when only the previous option are included, but both in Jaunty and Karmic, those options do not work :
1) keyboard=it or keyb=it or xkeyboard=it (no effect)
2) bootkbd=it (system doesn't boot, and this is the standard option from https:/
3) console-
4) file=/cdrom/
When system doesn't boot, it looklikes looking for a media it can't read (/dev/sdb, /dev/sr0......), and we get a loop.
Do I need to copy extra files in /boot/usb-boot?
5) option bootkbd=it in syslinux.cfg let system booting, but no effects;
6) manual change allows to set keyboard (Applications/
For my use, the "persistent" option is not indispensable; A boot with the right keyboard would be preferable for multiple installs;
7) option xforcevesa doesn't work (no boot) option vesa has no effect
Thx
Paolo
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) → nobody |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
It should not be necessary to specify root=UUID=46F1-C9E3 when booting with boot=casper. It will look through the disks and find the live CD by checking .disk/uuid.
Can you please attach casper.log (see https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/DebuggingCa sper)?