John Austin ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 29/03/2006
18:34:
Hi
I'm trying to understand why two of my
machines will successfully boot FC5 from an
external USB disk and one will not.
initrd_usb.gz has been created right at the end of a
clean FC5 install to a USB disk in "linux expert" mode.
After removing the FC5 DVD
Cont/Alt/F2
chroot /mnt/sysimage
/sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage \
--preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd_usb.gz \
2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
This USB disk boots successfully on two machines with a bit of tweaking
of grub interactively during the first boot and then changing grub.conf
as required.
gunzip -c initrd_usb.gz | cpio -i
shows me the init file with "undocumented" commands such as
mkblkdevs
resume
mkrootdev seems to have changed from man pages
mount seems to have changed from man pages
setuproot
There appears to be no mkinitrd in core-source
I can guess what some of the commands do but
would like to know for sure.
Advise as to where to find the details of the
way nash now works would be great.
Any other hints please
Regards
John
Hi John
you know that I am a newbie on USB boot.
On the unsuccessfull machine, which is the message during boot?
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