[SOLVED] initramfs unable to find a medium containing a live file system
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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?
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.
Last edited by PROBLEMCHYLD; 12-09-2016 at 06:03 PM.
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.
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