Hello,
I recently downloaded the Gutsy liveCD iso and tried my hand at making a
live USB out of it.
This is what I followed,
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/28/usb-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-install/
The guide uses SysLinux as the boot loader. It worked well. However, I
wanted to try with GRUB as boot loader.
I used the liveCD (VMWare-d the live iso, actually) and ran grub-install.
My usb drive (/dev/sdb1) was mounted to /media/disk (fat32 format, single
partition)
# grub-install --root-directory=/media/disk /dev/sdb1
and got no errors (except for one xfs error, which is not fatal and caused
by a bug).
Device map :
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sdb
Then I added a menu.lst with the following contents:
default 0
hiddenmenu
timeout 3
title Gutsy LiveUSB
root (hd0,0)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz root=UUID=0341-9F80 ro quiet splash
initrd /casper/initrd.gz
quiet
savedefault
boot
After Grub, I get the Ubuntu logo and the orange progress bar. The bar
doesn't show any progress for sometime and then I get a prompt which says
(initramfs).
What am I missing?
I've checked that the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files are where menu.lst claims.
Also, I was able to ls -l the files in the USB drive. Thanks in advance.
~LVS