Usb Boot Device Hdd

BORELLI · 01-13-2007, 11:28 PM

I Would Like To Get A Few Ideas Concerning The Installation Of A Portable USB Hard Drive Containing A Mandriva System.

I've Been Studying The Habits Of Some Slackware Users Who Have Been Successful At This But The Setup For Mandriva Seems To Be Different.

At This Point I'm Committed To The Idea That Support Needs To Be Added To The Kernel Because We Boot Up Until The Point Where The System Tries To Mount ROOT Then Stops In A Panic. Sleeping Before Mounting Doesn't Help.

That Sounds Bad.

anotherlinuxuser · 01-18-2007, 01:14 AM

I am not familar with Mandriva, but in FC6, to boot from a usb drive, the following modules need to installed during boot (before attempting to mount the real root filesystem): scsi_mod, sd_mod and usb-storage.
These modules may be built in the kernel on Mandrivia, but if are not, they need to loaded from the initrd during boot. You will also need a 'sleep 8' right after the usb-stoarge module is loaded to give the usb subsys time to find the usb disk, before trying to mount it.

Like I say, this works in FC6