Hello,
yesterday I did follow exactly the description how to build a live system on a USB Stick with the additional second partition for the data of Live_USB_stick. So far I had success, as my Netbook did start booting and loaded the OpenSUSE 11.2 . Then I rebooted the Netbook and it never again comes up with the 11.2. It looks as if it would stop somewhere at starting the graphical system, but I’m not sure.
Today, second try, I created the USB stick with the 11.2 Live System only (no second partition). My Netbook starts booting and shows the 11.2 system successfully, also further boots are the same successful.
Then having created the Live system with the second partition again, results in a un-bootable Netbook again (not even the first time it comes up).
What I wonder when I did check the USB partitions: the one (sdg1) with the Live-CD can be mounted and the content is readable. The second one (sdg2) can not be mounted; shouldn’t it be mountable and shouldn’t it be formated with a file system?
Did anyone have some experience on this? Or, at least, the people having a running persistent live system, what does the partition them show up?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
cfunghi
If you take the thumb drive and wipe it out by writing zeroes to it and then recreate the bootable device with second partition you should be good to go. I had a similar problem.
Put the device into some other linux machine and then do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb (or whatever your usb drive is) it takes a long time to complete. You can see progress by doing kill -USR1 to the pid of the dd command.
Thanks, gmarchant!
That did help: after wiping out all stuff of the USB-stick, I did load the OpenSUSE 11.2 Live-CD first and the created the second partition (all as described in Live_USB_stick). Started the Netbook with boot from USB-HDD, system came up and I did some user specific settings. Then shutting down the system and did another boot from USB-HDD; System again comes up properly and had all the settings I did before.
Great, really!
Now I like to complete the How-To description for the Live_USB_stick with your hint; I will do it for the German site and would it do also for the English one, if it is ok for you (of course you has the honor for solution). Please tell me.
Regards
cfunghi
PS: just I had another UN-successful start of the Live-system and I tried it at another USB plug and, voila, it runs again. Hopefully it requires not a new USB plug every two starts - the Netbook has three only…
I am glad to hear that the fix worked!
Please feel free to quote my fix, thank you!
It seems the worst assumption did take place on this issue: after using the other USB-plug of the Netbook I could boot the Live-system two times, then no more! (the third plug did not have success for any time)
Really it sounds strange, but that’s my experience, that’s what happened.
Ok, I thought, lets take another USB-stick, may be the current one is for any reason corrupt. So I did prepare the other stick also exactly as described, but to make it short: no success at all - not one time the system finishs booting.
(It’s the continuation of my former entry …)
My USB-Sticks in use are an OSZ ATV 8GB and a Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB. The Netbook is a MSI U-100. Could it be the devices are the problem?
For me it’s really a mystery how this could be. Between all attempts I did clean up the sticks with writing zeros to them, then applying the live-CD content and the creating the second partition with fdisk.
How could it happen that the system came up the first times and then no more, even with a completely different stick?
One time of my countless attempts the Netbook did show a kind of dump; I would put it here in case someone drops by here who knows to read it, if I find how to load it here up (I’m new here and did not found how to load images…)
In general, I think I’ll give it up, it’s too annoying and time consuming to deal with this live-System - but I really wonder who did get this running?