Suse 9.1 personal on usb external hd

joker54 · 10-24-2004, 10:56 AM

I Installed suse 9.1 personal on my external usb hard drive succesfully. But when it reboots so i can load suse i always get an error

UFS: CAnoot open root device "sda 3" or unknown -block (0,0)
Pleas append a correct "root-" boot option
Kernel panic : UFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I dont want to make a dual boot with my windows xp on my sata drive so i disconnected it during the install

What is the solution to that problem?

And Yes I'm a Newbie

abisko00 · 10-24-2004, 12:36 PM

There need to be a couple of modules loaded by the kernel to recognize the USB-HDD. They need to be included into the kernel or into initrd. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you exactly which modules you need. Most probably among them are usbcore, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usb-storage.

You can include them into initrd by invoking

mkinitrd -m "ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usb-storage"

Alternatively you can add those names to /etc/sysconfig/kernel

INITRD_MODULES="ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usb-storage"

and run mkinitrd without additional options.