[systemd-devel] Help booting from USB

[Feli Flitzberg]

In the course of the day I managed to make everything boot from USB! Now I'll have to work on making the ISO. I don't have a premade image to work from, so wheee.

It turns out the issue was in the way dracut was building the initrd. Why wouldn't it include the kmod library by default...

Feli Flitzberg

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 17:54, <[u34 at net9.cf](mailto:On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 17:54,  <<a href=)> wrote:

> Feli Flitzberg <feliflitzberg at proton.me> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to make a Linux from Scratch-based operating system boot using systemd-boot from USB. However, I've been stuck at getting the USB recognized during early boot, as the stick simply doesn't register if it has a GPT during the kernel's processes. I don't know if it's an issue with my kernel config, or with the standards used to boot from USB, or something else I've never used before. This is quite literally one of two hurdles left before I can make a proper release (the other being an ISO image). Where do I start looking for the problem?
>>
>> Feli Flitzberg
>
> Does the bios/uefi firmaware/whichever you name it recognize the stick?
> If it does, one option is as follows:
> Can you successfuly boot another image, such as other people/distors/whatever,
> as long as you can reasonbly assume many people on the internet successfuly
> booted that image? Or, hopefully, that image has a forum/mailing list /whatever
> to discuss booting it?
> Hopefully, after being able to boot another image, you will be able to compare
> that image to yours. Or better, compare the way that image is produced to
> how you are making yours.
>
> --
> u34
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