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I am attempting to get a live USB boot of Linux mint Cinnamon 18.3 onto my Lenovo Y510P working. When I perform the boot from USB, linux successfully initializes, but then outputs many errors of the form
/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found
and crashes to initramfs with a message about not finding a medium with active file system.
On advice found elsewhere in the internet, I added
live-media=sdb1
to the APPEND line of the syslinux.cfg file, but the problem persisted. To help diagnose the problem, I checked the /dev/ file from within initramfs, where indeed sdb was not present. When I removed and reinserted the flash drive, it successfully detected the flash drive and added sdb and sdb1 to the /dev/ file.
Additionally, I found the following advice for this error:
This means the USB mass storage device wasn't detected, or the usb_storage kernel module wasn't loaded by the kernel. This could be because the udev rules didn't match the device and therefore didn't create the device node (e.g. /dev/sdb)
The evidence suggests this is exactly what is happening.
Why is Linux failing to detect the usb when it initializes? What are udev rules? Is there a formatting change necessary or something?
linux-mint system-installation udev live-usb
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I am attempting to get a live USB boot of Linux mint Cinnamon 18.3 onto my Lenovo Y510P working. When I perform the boot from USB, linux successfully initializes, but then outputs many errors of the form
/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found
and crashes to initramfs with a message about not finding a medium with active file system.
On advice found elsewhere in the internet, I added
live-media=sdb1
to the APPEND line of the syslinux.cfg file, but the problem persisted. To help diagnose the problem, I checked the /dev/ file from within initramfs, where indeed sdb was not present. When I removed and reinserted the flash drive, it successfully detected the flash drive and added sdb and sdb1 to the /dev/ file.
Additionally, I found the following advice for this error:
This means the USB mass storage device wasn't detected, or the usb_storage kernel module wasn't loaded by the kernel. This could be because the udev rules didn't match the device and therefore didn't create the device node (e.g. /dev/sdb)
The evidence suggests this is exactly what is happening.
Why is Linux failing to detect the usb when it initializes? What are udev rules? Is there a formatting change necessary or something?
linux-mint system-installation udev live-usb
asked Apr 27 at 22:49
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I am attempting to get a live USB boot of Linux mint Cinnamon 18.3 onto my Lenovo Y510P working. When I perform the boot from USB, linux successfully initializes, but then outputs many errors of the form
/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found
and crashes to initramfs with a message about not finding a medium with active file system.
On advice found elsewhere in the internet, I added
live-media=sdb1
to the APPEND line of the syslinux.cfg file, but the problem persisted. To help diagnose the problem, I checked the /dev/ file from within initramfs, where indeed sdb was not present. When I removed and reinserted the flash drive, it successfully detected the flash drive and added sdb and sdb1 to the /dev/ file.
Additionally, I found the following advice for this error:
This means the USB mass storage device wasn't detected, or the usb_storage kernel module wasn't loaded by the kernel. This could be because the udev rules didn't match the device and therefore didn't create the device node (e.g. /dev/sdb)
The evidence suggests this is exactly what is happening.
Why is Linux failing to detect the usb when it initializes? What are udev rules? Is there a formatting change necessary or something?
linux-mint system-installation udev live-usb
asked Apr 27 at 22:49
C.D.
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I am attempting to get a live USB boot of Linux mint Cinnamon 18.3 onto my Lenovo Y510P working. When I perform the boot from USB, linux successfully initializes, but then outputs many errors of the form
/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found
and crashes to initramfs with a message about not finding a medium with active file system.
On advice found elsewhere in the internet, I added
live-media=sdb1
to the APPEND line of the syslinux.cfg file, but the problem persisted. To help diagnose the problem, I checked the /dev/ file from within initramfs, where indeed sdb was not present. When I removed and reinserted the flash drive, it successfully detected the flash drive and added sdb and sdb1 to the /dev/ file.
Additionally, I found the following advice for this error:
This means the USB mass storage device wasn't detected, or the usb_storage kernel module wasn't loaded by the kernel. This could be because the udev rules didn't match the device and therefore didn't create the device node (e.g. /dev/sdb)
The evidence suggests this is exactly what is happening.
Why is Linux failing to detect the usb when it initializes? What are udev rules? Is there a formatting change necessary or something?
linux-mint system-installation udev live-usb
asked Apr 27 at 22:49
C.D.
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asked Apr 27 at 22:49
C.D.
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asked Apr 27 at 22:49
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asked Apr 27 at 22:49
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