Need help running livedvd from usb flash

[OmagicQ]

Hi,

I am relatively new to Sabayon Linux, I've dabbled here and there with linux in general however. 8 is the first distro I have used that fully supports my Sandybridge-based system. Other distros I have tried did not have Kernel 3.1+ or updated Intel 2.17 drivers to use the Sandybridge IGP without issues.
Anyway I am having trouble getting the KDE x64 distro from running from a usb flash drive. I have used Unetbootin 5.68 and Universal USB Installer 1.8.8.1
I press alt-f1 to see the messages and it seems to hang on "waiting from uevents to finish" or something like that. After a short time the screen floods with messages about stuff timing out and killing, it goes by so fast i can't make it out very well.

Booting from a burned dvd works as expected. Can anyone help? I wouldn't mind running the livedvd except I'm not sure how to tell it to load the whole dvd into memory and run from there. I can add "docache" to the boot options but i am not sure where.

Thanks.

[joeoden]

I have used Unetbootin 5.68

At the time of this reply having Sabayon limbo repo enabled the version I have installed is Unetbootin 5.65

After a short time the screen floods with messages about stuff timing out and killing, it goes by so fast i can't make it out very well

I had something similar with one of the daily images (it worked from dvd but not usb stick) fixed that by deleting the partition on the usb stick and then created a new partition to start fresh

Booting from a burned dvd works as expected

Have you tried to copy livecd.squashfs from dvd disc (or iso image) and then paste it replacing the one on the usb stick

I can add "docache" to the boot options but i am not sure where

Sabayon Wiki will answer that https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... veCD.2FDVD

[nonviotale]

Recently i encoutered the same think with my very old AMD64 3200+ pc. And i manage to solve it somehow like the way i am h\going to describe.

I download ubuntu 10.04. Make a persistent install to one usb flash drive. Install in that system a piece of software that is called multisystem.
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/ (Site in france, use google translate to understand)

Download the iso that i wanted to install in my system. Used mutisystem to loaded to my flash drive and voualla installation of sabayon 8 amd64 xfce to my very old pc with out problems.

[OmagicQ]

I have used Unetbootin 5.68

At the time of this reply having Sabayon limbo repo enabled the version I have installed is Unetbootin 5.65

I also tried Linux Live Usb creator from linuxliveusb dot com, still failed. I've checked the md5 hash so the download was good.

After a short time the screen floods with messages about stuff timing out and killing, it goes by so fast i can't make it out very well

I had something similar with one of the daily images (it worked from dvd but not usb stick) fixed that by deleting the partition on the usb stick and then created a new partition to start fresh

I have done it 3 times already with 3 different tools, but I will keep trying.

Booting from a burned dvd works as expected

Have you tried to copy livecd.squashfs from dvd disc (or iso image) and then paste it replacing the one on the usb stick

I will try that.

I can add "docache" to the boot options but i am not sure where

Sabayon Wiki will answer that https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... veCD.2FDVD

I will check it out, but I already tried inserting it right after music but before -- in the boot options of the first option. It seemed to copy it to ram but then hung on something else. I'm not blaming the distro, it works when I let it boot from dvd. I must be doing something wrong, anyway I will keep trying.

Thanks.

[OmagicQ]

Recently i encoutered the same think with my very old AMD64 3200+ pc. And i manage to solve it somehow like the way i am h\going to describe.

I download ubuntu 10.04. Make a persistent install to one usb flash drive. Install in that system a piece of software that is called multisystem.
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/ (Site in france, use google translate to understand)

Download the iso that i wanted to install in my system. Used mutisystem to loaded to my flash drive and voualla installation of sabayon 8 amd64 xfce to my very old pc with out problems.

thanks, it looks interesting but also adds another point of failure. I'm going to see if I can figure out how to use grub2 to for booting from usb, all the programs i've used so far all use syslinux.