Hernan Lopez wrote:
Hello, I´m did install UtutoXS2007 (based on Gentoo 2007), FreeBsd, and I don´t
have this problem. Generally the USB key when exec the post the same is (sd0)
and boot, then of boot the usb key, (sd0) is the principal Hard Disk, NOT THE
USB KEY, this pass of (sd0) to (sd1).
Partitions:
Kingston 512Mb
/boot=>ext2
/=>ext3
copy grub to /boot/grub and exec grub
root (sd0,0) =>where is the boot partition en USB
setup (sd1) => then that change de sdx number to sd1.
quit
This is what OP has been trying to do withut success, since grub refused
to do install to USB key since it can't find it as a disk to which you
could install stage 1/1.5/2 and make it bootable.
And going to FreeBSD is not the solution, useable for all of us.
Also, it is not clear to me whether your is always at (sd0) even if you
plug some SATA disks in your system and boot it and also if it goes for
all other disks also.
Be it as it may, on linux at least for traditional /dev/sdX links it
doesn't work, but it should work for addressing the drive through
/dev/disk/by-uuid or /dev/disk/by-path or /dev/disk/by-id.
Regards,
Branko
This mode I have not any problem.
Sorry by my english ;)
BYe.
Hernán López Pardo
http://otrodiaparaser.blogspot.com
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--- El mié 30-abr-08, Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
De: Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Asunto: [gentoo-amd64] boot Gentoo from USB key
Para: "gentoo-amd64" <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Fecha: miércoles, 30 de abril de 2008, 3:43 am
In the process of building an amd64 diskless box, I am
trying to make a
bootable USB key with no success up to now.
The first problem I encountered was related to ext2/vfat. I
initially
tried to format the key as ext2, but grub refuses to
install on it. Even
though I copied the /boot/grub/* directory into the key,
and I see it is
there, grub does not see it. The problem does not happen
with vfat.
So I worked around that and created two partitions in the
key, a small
vfat for the /boot and a 2Gb ext2 for the /. I copied the
stage3 into
the / with no problem. In the /boot I put the kernel image
which I am
already using on the same box, for now with discs still
connected. All
the modules are compiled in.
When I boot from the key, grub enters the shell (although I
did create
the grub.conf and menu.1st, so I don't understand why
it doesn't show
the menu). I manually specify the kernel file location and
root
parameter:
kernel /linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/sdg1
boot
The kernel starts to load, but panics because it is unable
to find the
root partition. When it stops it shows the available
partitions, these
include all the hard disk partitions but no USB key
partition. In fact,
if I omit the 'root' parameter from the grub shell
the boot works fine
but it uses the hard disk root partition instead of the USB
one.
>From the log on the screen the USB controller seems
correctly detected,
so I don't understand why it is not finding the root.
While writing this
one idea comes to my mind, maybe it is failing because I
attach the key
to a SDC/MMC/USB card reader? This evening I'll try to
plug it into a
different USB slot.
Any other ideas welcome.
raffaele
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