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On 11/19/06, Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> If anyone has been able to boot from a USB 2.0 drive, I would appreciate |
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> some pointers on how to get this installation working. |
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Yes. The fact that you made it to the "VFS: Cannot open root device" |
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message means that you successfully "booted" from the drive, in the |
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sense that the BIOS found a drive to boot from, and that grub (or |
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lillo) loaded and started executing the kernel. At this point, it is |
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down to your kernel configuration or the options passed to it by the |
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bootloader. |
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As long as the BIOS supports booting from a USB drive, the proceedure |
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is basically the same...make sure you have all the right drivers |
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compiled into your kernel (USB support, USB Mass Storage, SCSI disk, |
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and filesystem), and pass the appropriate root= option to the kernel. |
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Can you post the output of "grep -i -e =y -e =m |
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/usr/src/linux/.config", "fdisk -l", and your grub.conf (assuming you |
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are using grub to boot). |
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-Richard |
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