Gh0st Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 First I downloaded unetbootin and SUMO linux from here. I then used unetbootin to install the sumo ISO on my flash disk but when I boot, it only gives one option of "default" at the boot loader instead of the sumo splash screen. How do I change it back to the SUMO boot loader? I spent a few hours trying to get it to work by editing syslinux.cfg and I was able to load backtrack3 fine but samurai, dvl, and helix2 fail to boot. dvl fails and gives a kernel panic saying "No file system could mount root" my guess was that the ramdisk wasn't mounting but I was not able to find the reason for it because the grub commands look ok. I looked at the config files in /boot/grub and tried to put the main parts into my custom syslinux.cfg but no mater how many times I changed the commands I always get the kernel panic. custom syslinux.cfg default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 menu title UNetbootin timeout 1000 #Unused label unetbootindefault menu label Default kernel /ubnkern append initrd=/ubninit #This one works label cubez MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (Compiz) - Experimental KERNEL /boot/bt3/vmlinuz APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/bt3/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw chexpand=256 load=cubez autoexec=xconf;cubez;startx #This one works LABEL cubez MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (Compiz Nvidia) - Experimental KERNEL /boot/bt3/vmlinuz APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/bt3/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw chexpand=256 load=cubez,nvidiadriver autoexec=xconf;startnvidia.sh;startx #This one works LABEL memtest86 MENU LABEL Run Memtest utility KERNEL /boot/mt86p #This one works LABEL dban MENU LABEL dban KERNEL /boot/bootdisk/dban.img #Kernel panic unable to mount file system. label dvl menu label dvl kernel /boot/dvl/vmlinuz append vga=769 max_loop=255 init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=4444 root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd /boot/dvl/initrd.gz #Added it but have no Idea how to use it. LABEL mem MENU LABEL memdisk KERNEL /boot/memdisk #Does not work freezes after "USB mass storage support registered" label casper menu label Load Helix2 kernel /casper/vmlinuz append initrd=/casper/initrd.gz file=/casper/ubuntu.seed #Does not work unable to mount root fs. label sam menu label samurai kernel /samurai/casper/vmlinuz append initrd /samurai/casper/s1initrd.gz vga=791 splash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlocone Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 I too was playing around with it. I've done this many times. However, this time it didn't work out. Once I booted up the USB drive it gave me a partition error. I know that I partitioned & formated it correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osi Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 This site should help you out. http://blog.marcusjcarey.com/2008/12/sumo-...thumbdrive.html Per these directions I have a working image of SUMO on a 4gb cruzer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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