Hi,

I can not boot Fedora 5 from a PORTABLE USB external disk. I have a multi boot grub menu and one entry is to third partition of the portable disk. The boot process it is blocked when the kernel control this process and begin to mount the FILESYSTEM with the fstab file information.

THANKS


****HISTORICAL****
I did a process backup-restore-boot in these steps:

1- BACKUP from desktop PC to portable hard disk : i do an image iso file from a linux SO partition (hda) installed on a desktop PC to a partition PORTABLE disk (sda). The aplication used was Partimage integrated in SystemRescueCd 0.3.0 CD-rom.
2-RESTORE of from sda1 partition portable disk to sda3 partition portable disk.
3-BOOT: I would like boot the linux S.O. Store in sda3 partition portable disk FROM a new Desktop PC and I can not do it with error messages like:

"kernel /boot/vmlinuz...
"intrd /boot/.....
"Uncompressing linux ...
"REd Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
“ could not find filesystem “dev/root”
“ setuproot error mounting /prog”
“ setuproot error mounting /sys”
“ switchroot....
“kernel panic not syncing” attempted to kill init”

& PC status was BLOCKED

***********INFORMATION ABOUT DESKTOP SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

***[candido@dhcppc0 ~]$ cat /boot/grub/device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0) /dev/hda
[candido@dhcppc0 ~]$


***[root@dhcppc0 candido]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1761 13313128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2461 3815 10243800 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3816 4093 2101680 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 1762 2460 5284440 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda5 3816 4087 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1386 11133013+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1387 2661 10241437+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 2662 4063 11261565 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4064 7250 25599577+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-0: 205 MB, 205520896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table


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/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/grupoprueba/vologicprue1 /data ext3 defaults 0 0


************** GRUB INFORMATION ****************

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd0,1)
(hd1,2)


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THANKS IN ADVANCE

Does the computer BIOS support booting from the external disk? If the motherboard does not support booting from an external disk then as far as I know you cannot do it. I just spent a couple of weeks trying to boot from an external disk on a computer where the BIOS does not support this. I tried all manner of boot methods including using GRUB on a floppy disk. Nothing worked for me.

Yes, bios support boot from a usb device
Thanks