initramfs unable to find a medium containing a live file system
 

I'm trying to install gparted live hdd and I keep getting the error initramfs unable to find a medium containing a live file system. I have all of the gparted files on its own partition /sda2. How do I fix this?

Please explain the steps you have taken for the installation, including the command you typed.

Without that information it's hard to help you.

Out of curiosity, why install gparted on a live hdd instead of an USB stick or a CD?

http://gparted.org/livehd.php#live-hd-lilo I followed these instructions.

And, how is this related to Slackware?

Because Slackware is on the sda1 partition.

Here I have another error message: "mounting aufs on /root failed". I don't knw why.

But other than that my guess is you didn't follow the instructions closely enough.

In your /etc/lilo.conf, in the line beginning with "append=", do you have "bootfrom=dev/sda2" ?

Also it is useless to have a partition dedicated to gparted-live I think.

Anyway I will repeat my question: why not make a live USB or CD as most people do?

Yes, I do have it on the append. I want it on a partition for maintenance reasons. CDs tend to get scratch and are iffy sometimes, I have a couple USB flash drives but they all have important documents on them. Wasn't going to risk it.

What exactly did you add to your lilo.conf?
Do the dir names in the lilo section match up with the path/name of the "gparted-live" directory?

(What Didier said... root = ___ , and the append section bootfrom=, live-media-path= ... check these.)

I will sometimes use systemrescuecd (which has gparted), with grub2 on remote systems where I can't physically put in a CD/DVD/USB and then tweak the default boot entry. However, I have to put the small iso image on the /boot partition that grub2 config lives in. The persistent files can be elsewhere though.

The exact same from the site except mine is sda2.

Looks like a problem when the original forum post by comet.berkeley was transferred to the GParted site.

I'm getting the aufs error as well. The other error is gone now. Im going to assume I need to install aufs on the root drive?

Looking at http://gparted.org/livepxe.php suggests that GParted live version <= 0.22.0-1 uses 'union=aufs', but later versions use 'union=overlay'.

PS - Nice one Alien Bob! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverlayFS

With 'union=overlay' I get the message initially posted.

Using the overlay command it booted right up. Thanks for all the help.

gparted version?