Making a LiveUSB Boot CD for openSUSE 11.1

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Hey guys, I’m in need of some help. I’m trying to make a LiveUSB Boot CD for openSUSE 11.1. Here’s what I’m working on.

I have already made the LiveUSB and it works great. Unetbootin is the best (and easiest) method to do this. I have openSUSE 11.1 running fully functional on my 8GB SanDisk Cruzer. What I need now is to make a boot CD for BIOS’s that DO NOT support USB Boot. I have PC’s which I need to run the LiveUSB from that don’t support USB booting. I have done this in the past using Kubuntu (a full tutorial can be found here: USB Boot CD for Kubuntu 8.10 - Boot from USB without BIOS support | USB Pen Drive Linux). I’ve tried to adopt the same concept to openSUSE and it doesn’t work.

I’m getting this error during boot:

Loading KIWI USB Boot-System...
-------------------------------
/include: line 1861: cdrom-detect/try-usb=true : No such file or directory

It proceeds until it runs into this error:

Waiting for USB device(s) to appear...............
-----> Failed to load USB drive !
-----> rebootException: error consoles at Alt-F3/F4
-----> rebootException: reboot in 120 sec...

I have my ISO hosted at http://www.bchynds.com/usbcd/usbcd_ver1.iso if you’d like to check it out.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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I forgot to mention, I also used the modified initrd (initrdud) found here http://vavai.net/uploads/initrdud.

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I am using Grub to make bootable usb Drive. I have three partitions on USB key. Two are DOS partition of 60 MBs and can be boot up separately with Grub boot menu in the third partition.

1.First partition- DOS, syslinux configured for Offline Windows NT 2K XP password Administration
2.Second Partition- DOS, Windwos 98 DOS systems for Ghost, Partition magic, DOS network boot
3.Third Partition - Ext2, the GRUB boot system

I have copied OpenSuse11.1 liveCD to the third partition and followed all changes including initrdud as in How to Make openSUSE 11.1 LiveUSB | Spirit of Change .

I get the following error:

cddev /dev/sda1: /dev/sdb1
–—> Mounting live boot drive …
–—> Couldn’t find Live image configuration file
–—> ShellException: providing shell …

The Grub menu.lst contains:

title OpenSuse 11.1 Live
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/i386/loader/kernel root=/dev/sdb3 kiwidebug=1 ramdisk_size=512000 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/i386/loader/initrdud

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

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@ kiran:
:disapointed:

It’s pretty rude to hijack my forum thread with your own problems, especially when the original problems of my thread haven’t been resolved. And it looks like you’ve hijacked several other threads as well. Not only that, but it looks like you have no clue what you’re doing with your USB drive. You have multiple bootloaders installed which is a terrible practice. And your partitioning scheme doesn’t make any sense. You simply can’t just copy the LiveCD contents of the disk to the USB drive and expect it to work.

To get back on topic, I’m still working on creating a boot cd. I still haven’t figured out why the USB drives aren’t being detected and I’ve made about 10 cd coasters. I’m considering getting a CD-RW just to save money on wasting disks. Oh the joys of trial and error.