[mythtv-users] ZOTAC IONITX-B-E installation/configuration...

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 19:54:26 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> I ran into a funny problem on an Asus board with an AMI BIOS. It would not
>> save the setting to boot from USB first (as HDD) unless there was a USB key
>> mounted. It is possible that it is not saving that setting...
>
> the setting does appear to persist as it shows up in the BIOS settings
> when i return after a failed boot.
>
>> However it sounds more like the install *to* the usb stick. I presume you
>> used unetbootin (sp?) or live-cd-tools on another box, to install from the
>> CD, to the USB stick. Which raises three possibilities: the MBR was not
>> properly initialized (doesn't sound like that however) OR the grub.conf is
>> pointing to the wrong place (sounds kinda like that, but ?no error
>> message???) or possibly, somehow the OS partitions were not properly
>> formatted...still vfat?? or is /boot on ext4, which some setups choke on?
>
> this problem is more likely, a bad install to the USB key.  i just
> stuck the key in anther linux box and ran 'sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc' on
> it.  there is one Linux (83 = ext3) partition on the key taking up the
> whole key (8GB) and it is listed as bootable.
>
> [mythtv at MythBackend ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 8015 MB, 8015282176 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 974 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x5641431b
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1   *           1         637     5116671   83  Linux
> [mythtv at MythBackend ~]$
>
> the USB key is the only 'storage' attached to the IONITX aside from
> the USB CD-ROM.  so i originally booted from CD and installed to the
> USB key all on the IONITX.  ejected the cd when the install was
> complete and the system attempted to reboot from the key (which was
> the first boot device, CD was second).  the boot just hangs at
> 'initializing kernel'.  the really weird thing is that my USB keyboard
> and mouse go dead at this point.  it's like all USB access is dead.
> but for the install boot i was booting off the USB CD drive...
>
> i 'assumed' that installing to the USB key would be the same as
> installing to a harddisk.  just pick your target and install.  is
> there some other magic that needs to be done at install time to get
> the installed kernel to 'know' that it's booting off a USB key?
>
> thx for the reply :)

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