I was able to install to and boot from Sandisk Cruzer USB thumb drive
using the instructions mentioned here:
http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm
My only problem is that this doesn't work on some Cruzer usb thumb
drives. The 'bad' thumb drives fail during boot
--------vga ouput-----
partition check:
sda: #Notice that sda1 doesn't appear as it does on 'good'
drive
Creating block devices
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
reread partation table
# hangs here forever
-----end output--------

I've added longer sleeps, etc.

Anyone have any ideas as to waht would be the fix for these other
Cruzer thumb drives.

Thanks...

I forgot to mention that this happens using either RedHat 9.0 or Fedora
core 3.

Russell <riotejas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to install to and boot from Sandisk Cruzer USB thumb drive
> using the instructions mentioned here:
> http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm
> My only problem is that this doesn't work on some Cruzer usb thumb
> drives.
>The 'bad' thumb drives fail during boot
> --------vga ouput-----
> partition check:
> sda: #Notice that sda1 doesn't appear as it does on 'good'
> drive

"some"? Does that mean that you have at least one SanDisk Cruzer Mini
which boots without problem? My SanDisk boots okey on USB-1.1 but hangs
on USB-2.0.

In any case, put 'sleep 10', and pull your USB key after 'usb-storage'
loads, and reinsert.

--
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.