Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 06:33, Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 13:51 -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
when you say 'installed on boot disk', I have several ways to interpret that:
1. grub-stage1 is in the MBR
2. grub 1.5 and 2 are in /boot/grub/ (on FC-3 at least)
3. both the above.
in my case, Ive got extlinux installed to MBR on /dev/sda,
I probably should have been more clear. By boot disk, I mean the disk that the bios is reading the MBR from (the boot disk). On your laptop that would likely be /dev/hda, on the usb device you indicate it as /dev/sda. If you want to use grub for booting from the usb drive without another drive hosting grub you will likely need to install grub on the boot sector of /dev/sda
that is the plan.If I understand your plans correctly, you want this usb drive to be able to boot standalone.
I believe that what's missing is that you don't have USB support compiled into the kernel and not as modules.
I've done it before and it's do-able.
I should clarify. Ive tried 2 different means to my end.
1. booting my laptop, using grub on hda to pull kernel from sda, and mount it as root.
Grub is not seeing the drive, whether thats cuz my laptop BIOS wont show it, OR
cuz grub is unable to use it. Naturally, the question is which ?
2. booting my dads computer directly from the usb-drive (the goal).
His box has no grub, but does have a BIOS that will try the usb-drive 1st.
EXTLINUX (new in syslinux-3.00) finds the kernel and the initrd, and starts the boot.
(it has an automatic menu-system too, with appendable boot-lines)
wrt recompiling, thats sufficient, but not necessary.
I used mkinitrd --with=usb_storage to make an initrd with the necessary modules,
copied that into where extlinux looks.
Now the kernel loads them during boot (so that looks ok),
but still fails shortly afterwards (so Im still missing something)
heres the boot error, starting from the initrd module load:
Loading jbd.ko module " ext3.ko " " scsi_mod.ko " SCSI subsystem initialized Loading usb-storage.ko Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcor: registered new USB Mass Storage support registered. Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: errort 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed : 2 Kernel panic -not syncing: attempted to kill init
hangs.. CtlAltDel doesnt clear it. power cycling does.
