[TriLUG] booting off usbstick

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020, Bill Farrow via TriLUG wrote:

> My experience building bootable USB drives over the years is that the
> BIOS (or equivalent) dictates how the USB flash drive partitions and
> files have to be set up.  Are you able to capture the boot log showing
> the crash ?

I should do this via a serial console? o-me-o-mi, I haven't watched a bootup via 
a serial console in 20 years. I will have to look in deep storage for serial 
cables.

by eyeball, doing a mental diff of the screens for a crashed boot and a regular 
boot, it crashes as it's loading the SATA drivers. I assumed that it was trying 
to get to the sata interface of the usb stick (at least that's how I think a usb 
stick works).

> As a stepping stone, have you had any success using one of the small
> linux distros designed to run from CD or USB ?

many of these.

Joe

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