On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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? Quite possibly. I seem to be reading the same thing, but I thought I had heard from the list previously that it was possible.
Actually, I've just found the e-mail I was thinking of before: Alan McKinnon's reply on 08/31/10 02:32 with the subject "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers" in which he said that he's always used labels and never needed an initramfs to make it work. So I might have to fiddle with it some more and see if I can't get it working. >> 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 > No, I'm still trying to get a basic system up and running. After I booted into it, I tried to install v86d so I could try to get a framebuffer working and have more lines on my screen while I try to trim things down. However, I quickly ran into an "out of space" issue, which I found out was because of inodes, not size. So I had to copy the contents off, re-make the partition with more inodes, and then copy the data back on. Since then, I haven't had a chance to boot it and see how it's going. Hope to tomorrow. Jake Moe
