On Monday 20 July 2009, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Daniel Kirsten<Daniel.Kirsten@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > The installation seemed to be successful, but I cannot boot from > > this USB-HDD. WHen I turn on the computer, it reads a bit from the > > USB-HDD, abd then it boots immediately from the built in HDD. > > I did this very same thing once, back with Fedora Core 4. To get it > to work I had to make a custom initrd that had the USB storage drivers > on it. > > I'm sorry, it's been so long that I don't remember much about how I did it. > > However, if you boot on an internal drive, then mount your USB drive, > lsmod will tell you what modules you have loaded in your kernel. The > ones having to do with USB and SCSI will be what you need. > > Your initrd will also need a script to actually load the modules. > That might be taken care of by mkinitrd these days, but I don't think > it was back when I did this. > > Sorry, I've been meaning for YEARS to write up a HOWTO on this very > thing, but just never got around to it. I am not sure whether this problem is related to the initrd. When I try to boot from this USB-HDD, grub does not even start. I just see a blinking cursor, and then, the computer boots from the built in HardDisk. I can mount the boot partition os the USB-Drive. grub is configured. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
