On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 23:45, Jim Cromie wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > >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 ? One MSG shows you to put sda into device.map. Did you try that already? Can your laptop boot directly from USB? But I believe that Grub should be able to do it, it's just sort of like a pointer that "points" where it should boot from. > 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) So it works then. What's the prob? YOu want #1 too? > 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) Hmm.. > > 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 Is this a Typo?? > 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. Can you try to mount the initrd image via loopback and look at the linuxrc file?? I know it can be done simply with mkinitrd, but I've gone the manual part and hacked the linuxrc file. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:21:30 up 3:19, 6 users, load average: 0.37, 0.41, 0.38
