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02-21-2008, 10:06 AM
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 Gentoo on USB-HDD Hello, I'm trying to install Gentoo on my USB HDD. I did the installation process as if the USB HDD was an normal Harddisk. My USB-HDD is /dev/sda. I mounted /dev/sda5 as / and installed LILO to /dev/sda. When booting the first time from my USB-HDD, the startup process interrupts with an error message "Unable to mount root-FS". The settings in /etc/lilo.conf are definitely correct. The problem seems to be, that at the point in the startup-procedure when the Kernel (?) tries to find the root partition, the USB-HDD-partition /dev/sda5 is not accessible yet?! Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is included) Did I miss anything else? BTW: Sorry, english is not my native language... ;-)      |
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD Timo Johansson enlightened us with: > Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is > included) Did I miss anything else? Perhaps you missed usb-storage and SCSI disk support? Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa |
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD Hi Sybren, thanks for your reply! Sybren Stuvel schrieb: > Timo Johansson enlightened us with: > >>Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is >>included) Did I miss anything else? > > > Perhaps you missed usb-storage and SCSI disk support? No, these are included...! |
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02-21-2008, 10:06 AM
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:33:28 +0200, Timo Johansson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo on my USB HDD. > > I did the installation process as if the USB HDD was an normal Harddisk. > > My USB-HDD is /dev/sda. > I mounted /dev/sda5 as / and installed LILO to /dev/sda. > > When booting the first time from my USB-HDD, the startup process > interrupts with an error message "Unable to mount root-FS". > The settings in /etc/lilo.conf are definitely correct. > > The problem seems to be, that at the point in the startup-procedure when > the Kernel (?) tries to find the root partition, the USB-HDD-partition > /dev/sda5 is not accessible yet?! > > Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is > included) Did I miss anything else? > > BTW: Sorry, english is not my native language... ;-) From what I've seen in setting up my USB-HDD the drive is not available until after the coldplug service is started. I'm not sure if this is due to the way I have my kernel configured or if it normal behavior on all systems. I ran into other issues having my drive connected at boot time (my mp3 player requires multiple LUNs but if my Seagate USB-HDD is powered on at boot time it shows up with multiple LUNs and performance is severely degraded) so I just use auto-fs and keep system partitions on my IDE drive and data only on my USB-HDD. I know it's not much help, but thought it might give you some place to start looking. |
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:33:28 +0200, Timo Johansson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo on my USB HDD. There's a howto here: http://www.simonf.com/usb/. There are no specific instructions for gentoo but for FC3, FC4, debian, etc). I havn't tried it, though it's on my TODO list. hope it helps, Dieter |
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD Timo Johansson wrote: > Hi Sybren, thanks for your reply! > > Sybren Stuvel schrieb: >> Timo Johansson enlightened us with: >> >>>Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is >>>included) Did I miss anything else? >> >> >> Perhaps you missed usb-storage and SCSI disk support? > > No, these are included...! Have you tried building an initrd with those drivers in it, just in case? |
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| Re: Gentoo on USB-HDD Timo Johansson wrote: > Hi Sybren, thanks for your reply! > > Sybren Stuvel schrieb: >> Timo Johansson enlightened us with: >> >>>Did I miss to include anything into the kernel? (UHCI is already is >>>included) Did I miss anything else? >> >> >> Perhaps you missed usb-storage and SCSI disk support? > > No, these are included...! "Included" as in compiled into the kernel and not modules? -- ************************************************** **************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 9:08pm up 8 days, 5:41, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.00 |
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