On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: <snipped>
> Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that > I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, > if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not > found, but sda1 is listed as available), but if I use root=/dev/sda1, it > works. However, later in the boot process, it mounts / using > LABEL=UsbRoot in fstab just fine. Is that a problem with GRUB? Or the > kernel? Or am I doing something else wrong? I think someone mentioned earlier in this thread that "label" support for boot requires an initrd (ramdisk) to work. This could be what you're running into? > And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I > found these in the Gentoo Wiki: > USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install > Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo > > Unfortunately, both use genkernel instead of manually configured > kernels, so that part doesn't help, but one mentions the option > "scandelay=2" to add to the kernel boot line in GRUB to introduce the > delay genkernel needed to see the USB device; would have been good to > know that last week when I was trying genkernel. :-P That is something I noticed for a few Howto's, genkernel is used quite often, but I actually haven't seen the need for it myself yet. But I am glad to hear you managed to get it working. Did you try trimming down your kernel a bit more to see what the minimum required is? :) -- Joost
