I installed Slack 11 on an external USB hd using huge26.s. I used the reiserfs and partitioned the drive with a swap part on sda1 and root on sda2. I have been piecing together info from several threads to get this thing to boot.
Mostly this one:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=365161
I have installed the kernel modules and kernel 2.6.13.17.
I created an initrd.gz
Code:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.13 -m reiserfs:ehci-hcd:uhci-hcd:ohci-hcd:usb-storage
and edited it by extracting it and mounting as a loop device. I edited and updated my lilo.conf with initrd = /boot/initrd.gz. reran lilo
which seemed ok expcept for the following warning:
Code:
/proc/partitions does not exist
When I boot the device it gets past the point of loading the usb modules and recognizes my usb h/d which contains an older 4gb hd.
The system then fails to complete the boot process with the following error:
Code:
mount: Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
ERROR: mount returned error code 1. Trouble ahead
mount: Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
mount: Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
I then get dropped to a sort of limited shell which I recognized as
having the same structure as the initrd file when i mounted it.
Just for kicks I tried to mount /dev/sda2 on /mnt manually and got this:
Code:
mount: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory # not sure if this useful info or not
I'm not sure how to continue and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.