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I don't know which script produces that, it's part of the booting process of a Lubuntu Live USB-Stick (10.04) made with the universal USB installer. I'm not very familiar with this process...
I tried rootdelay but it didn't work, I'm trying sleep and other similar commands right now...

edit: here is what I tried:

Code:

kexec -l /media/usb/casper/vmlinuz --append="ro root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=20 rootwait" --initrd="/media/usb/casper/initrd.lz" --ramdisk="/media/usb/casper/initrd.lz" --real-mode -d
kexec -d -e

still doesn't work...
Everything seems mounted and working fine, every driver needed as loaded and it should just start the desktop...
I looked in /sys/class/block/ and there was a sdb and sdb1 folder whith all the stats my USB-Stick has, so I'm pretty sure /dev/sdb1 is the Stick from which I'm booting

You'll have to look into the boot scripts in that initrd to figure out why they're messing up. It'll all be started by a program named init, probably a shell script. Meanwhile you could try mounting and chrooting manually in the prompt, to see if that works at all. Something like

Code:

$ mkdir -p /mnt/root
$ mount -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/root
$ umount /proc
$ umount /sys
$ exec switch_root /mnt/root /bin/init

might be /sbin/init or just /init.

I can't say if the rest works or not, but mounting /dev/sdb1 somewhere did not work... Invalid Argument error :/

Can you fdisk -l ? What filesystem do you have on /dev/sdb1? It has to be something the kernel or the initrd supports. Best to build it into the kernel.

fdisk isn't implemented...
sdb1 is fat32 which is supported by the kernel.
It would really help if the ALERT! gives more information than " does not exist!"
I will try it again with other sticks, filesystems and linux versions. Maybe theres a problem not related to the live-system directly... I should be able to give more information on friday!

You're trying to boot linux from FAT32!? That's probably not going to work. It lacks nearly all the features of a proper UNIX filesystem. Security features prevent you from running any executables on it, too. How'd you ever install Linux in that?

Really?
It worked before.. xD
It's just a live usb and it works if I just plug it into my computer and boot it via BIOS