[Assist] Parabola LiveUSB

[Jonathan Beatty]

Just type exit to continue booting. It worked for me.
On Aug 26, 2012 6:53 PM, "Stayvoid" <stayvoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to install Parabola to Yeeloong.
>
> But I must change my partition scheme prior to that.
> That's why I want to boot from an external media.
>
> What should I do to make a LiveUSB?
>
> Here is what I did:
> 1. Downloaded this [1] package;
> 2. Unpacked and copied it to my USB flash drive;
> 3. Used the following commands to load it:
>
> load (usb0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-linux-libre
> initrd (usb0,0)/boot/initramfs-linux-libre.img
> g console=tty no_auto_cmd
>
> Output:
>
> :: Starting udevd...
> done.
> :: Running Hook [udev]
> :: Triggering uevents...done.
> ERROR: device '' not found. Skipping fsck.
> ERROR: Unable to find root device ''.
> You are being dropped to a recovery shell
>     Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
> sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>
> exit
>
> Recovery shell has a limited functionality. For example, it
> doesn't contain fdisk nor parted. And I haven't found a way to
> configure the network.
>
> But I was able to mount partitions. I think that I can copy
> fdisk from there, but the whole process looks like an overkill.
>
> Am I doing it wrong?
> Is there a better package for such purpose?
>
> [1] http://mtjm.eu/releases/parabola/parabola-mips64el-20120503.tar.bz2
>
> Thanks
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