View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
thomasmue n00b
Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 73 Location: MTK,OF,WAK
|
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject: Booting from external USB Harddrive ? |
|
|
Hi,
because I want to use my office notebook for playing with gentoo, I tried to boot from USB. But no success.
The notebook is a DELL Lattitude D505. The BIOS supports booting from external USB devices.
The external USB Drive is a 2.5" Harddrive with a Samsung MP8004H.
The partition Layout is:
partition 1: primary 20 GB FAT32
partiton 2: primary 1 GB Linux with ext3 filesystem
partition 5: extended 20 GB Linux with ext3 filesystem
partition 6: extended 1 GB swap
parition 7: 35 GB Linux unused.
I installed gentoo with a knoppix cd and installed grub.
I included USB and USB Mass Storage support in the kernel.
When I try to boot, I can see my grub menu, and grub starts the kernel. But then I get a message:
VFS: can't find /dev/sda5
after that I see a message, that the USB drive is recognzed.
Any ideas ? Thanks.
Thomas |
|
Back to top |
|
|
NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54028 Location: 56N 3W
|
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
thomasmue,
You need a special kernel that initialises the USB system before it attempts to mount the root filesystem, which is not the normal course of events.
Its discussed on the forums an I recall a patch to make it work too. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|