Talk:Install Gentoo on a bootable USB stick

Bootloader
Instead of lilo, I would recommend using Syslinux. — yngwin (wiki admin) (talk) 14:07, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Configuration of syslinux added to the page DrCrane (talk) 17:40, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

For pete's sake it is 2013, can Lilo be removed and grub2 be added? (talk)--Ruminate (talk) 04:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Just add a subsection for GRUB2 if you have experience with using GRUB2 with USB sticks. --SwifT (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and want to install Gentoo on a USB stick. Could the same method be used in Ubuntu instead of having to install Gentoo first?


 * Somewhat. The initial kernel build will need to be performed from within the chroot environment instead of up-front though. The original author moved that outside the chroot instructions probably for performance reasons (as the chroot is on the USB stick itself). However, you can also create a chroot elsewhere (not on the USB stick), do the kernel build there and then move to the USB. --SwifT (talk) 10:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Possible Corrections
When installing syslinux I used bs=440 (instead of bs=404 mentioned in the article) and it worked for me. Other sources use 440 as the size so perhaps this is a typo? I don't understand syslinux enough to be confident to make the edit in the article.

I also found that I had to do a "make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/mnt/gentoo modules_install" on the kernel sources to get modules to work properly on the stick.

Installing from a USB drive?
Does this work when running from a USB drive?