On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 23:05, Daniel Stonier wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:30:51 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:23, Daniel Stonier wrote: > > > >> >> Been googling and experimenting a bit without luck. > >> >> > >> >> Has anybody managed or heard of someone getting a usb external hard > >> >> drive installed and booting successfully with Fedora? > >> > > >> > Found this, but didn't work for me. Perhaps for you it does. > >> > > >> > http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm > >> > >> Found it also. Alot of it made sense, but unfortunately didn't work for > >> me either. I didn't have his exact setup though (didn't remove the > >> drives)and couldn't get around the problems with it. > > > > I managed to make it work the 2nd time around.. Heck, even got suse9.1 > > to boot from it. > > > > BUt this is after I loaned a friends' casing. My original sarotech cutie > > casing didn't work. it was always giving me errors. (errors which I > > didn'tsee whenever I plug in my drive in rh9 with 2.6.3 kernel. > > Got it going with Suse 9.1 - it all came down to missing kernel modules > for the > usb stuff in the initrd image. Will try it with FC2 later. Ben's > instructions are for the > most part pretty good, although I needed to add the usbcore module as well > (usb-storage > and ehci-hcd depended on it). Also had to make sure my grub was installed > on the MBR > of /dev/sda rather than on the first boot partition. > > Thanks for the note - it kept me going when I may have given up! > Here's another one.. And Yes.. I've saved my initrd images for future use. http://simonf.com/usb/ -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 17:08:47 up 5:05, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.61, 0.47
