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Old 04-04-2007, 04:43 PM   #16
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Hi again

It comes back to the same thing doesn't it.

Your boot cannot find the drive, this is either because it cannot find the filesystem ie. no driver.

Or it cannot find the drive, no device.

You fix the first one with mkinitrd. Detailed above.

You fix the second one with a boot disk.

Try to get your drive booting by using one of the options rather than constantly re-installing. It is installed, it just needs to boot.

Or you could use it as a live cd.

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Old 04-04-2007, 05:06 PM   #17
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy8
Well its been quite a while and I have had someone on another forum try to help and he did a ton to try to help me get it working. As it sits now I have a fresh install of BT2 on my drive. Here is my drive setup.

/dev/sdb1 /boot +10M ext2
/dev/sdb2 SWAP +1024
/dev/sdb3 root +5120 ext3

Here is the error I get when I try to boot to the drive which is an external drive btw.

VS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block (8,19)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,19)

Any thoughts?

Since your trying to boot an external usb drive, I wonder if you need to go into the bios settings of the motherboard and tell it to boot from usb, the same as you would tell it to boot from a floppy or cdrom device.

I know some motherboards have different options to boot from different devices, network, usb, floppy, optical drives (cdrom/dvd)) etc....
 
Old 04-04-2007, 05:42 PM   #18
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Ive got it set in my BIOS to boot to a USB hard drive. Well I will try the initrd thing now and see what happens.
 
Old 04-04-2007, 10:13 PM   #19
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Well I have disk one of slackware now. I have booted up to it and for some reason I can even cd into /boot all it says is
cd: can't cd to /boot

Im also assuming once I can or somehow do what I need to that I will want to run this comman

mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.13 -m jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3
 
Old 04-09-2007, 10:25 AM   #20
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Any ideas why this is?
 
Old 04-09-2007, 12:09 PM   #21
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Booting slackware disk1 boots the kernel from the slack disk and mounts the slack disk.

You need to pass arguments to the slack disk to actually boot your usb drive, or mount your usb drive after slack has booted.

- Piete.
 
Old 04-09-2007, 08:24 PM   #22
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Hey Crazy

i'm facing the same problem, and get solved

try my solution

while trying to compile kernel
make menuconfig

**Built-in

the Ext3 in File System, and 2 generic IDE option in Device Driver

here is my thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=544314
 
Old 04-09-2007, 09:18 PM   #23
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so if I read and understand right your telling me to just try this...

just make menuconfig

and **BUILT-IN*** (not module)

the Ext3 in File System, and generic IDE in Device Driver

and thats it? If so ill give it a shot and see what happens
 
Old 04-09-2007, 09:38 PM   #24
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i'm telling u to recmpile the kernel
while make menuconfig

Built-in these option (yes,not modules)
Device Driver->ATA/ATAPI/MFM-> Generic PCI IDE chipset , PCI IDE Chipset support , generic/default IDE Chipset Support

Last edited by Raynus; 04-09-2007 at 09:53 PM.
 
Old 04-09-2007, 11:32 PM   #25
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Oh my god its WORKING... Here is what I did

chroot /mnt/sdb3 /bin/bash
cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig

--once the GUI loads up--
Device Driver---->
ATA/ATAPI/MFM---->
Generic PCI IDE chipset, PCI IDE chipset support, Generic/default IDE chipset support.

save
lilo -v

reboot and its alive and running
 
Old 04-10-2007, 03:51 AM   #26
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CONGRATULATION !!!!!

lol
 
Old 04-10-2007, 09:16 AM   #27
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So now since I am still new to linux, would it be safe for me to recompile the kernel to add more drivers and such if I had choose to do so and have it not cause any problems? I ask because I have a USB wireless device that I would like support for and also would just like to have as much support as possible for devices in case I add something in the future.
Incase I can re-edit the kernel, is it safe or ok for me to do it being booted into linux or should I do it off the cd?

Last edited by crazy8; 04-10-2007 at 09:47 AM.
 
Old 04-10-2007, 10:03 AM   #28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy8
So now since I am still new to linux, would it be safe for me to recompile the kernel to add more drivers and such if I had choose to do so and have it not cause any problems? I ask because I have a USB wireless device that I would like support for and also would just like to have as much support as possible for devices in case I add something in the future.

nope, i'm working on that thing too.

after solved the kernel panic prob,i've recompiled that kernal for dozen of times (for modifying driver & modules) no problem until now


Quote:
Incase I can re-edit the kernel, is it safe or ok for me to do it being booted into linux or should I do it off the cd?
its safe now , boot it as usual and do what ever u want

Last edited by Raynus; 04-10-2007 at 10:11 AM.
 
Old 04-10-2007, 02:43 PM   #29
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Are you by chance having problems with your wireless? For some reason my built in Broadcom 4311 is shown if I run ifconfig and iwconfig but if I run the Wireless Assistant program to connect to a network it says there arnt any and I know there is. I have 2 of them directly outside my office about 20 or so feet away and are ALWAYS on. Any Ideas how to correct this? It worked fine before off the CD.
 
Old 04-11-2007, 03:36 AM   #30
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i've not confix wireless now (i'm using Ethernet) ,sry for that

have u try ndiswrapper?

ps. try searching this forum or gooling its seem that there 're many thread about this broadcom
 
  


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