On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: > 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.
I haven't used labels for that, so I don't know what is needed for that. Maybe a kernel-config setting? > >> 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. Ouch :( I'm usually a bit astumped when I get "out-of-space" issues and "df" still shows plenty of free disk space. Looking forward to your update :) -- Joost PS. Am thinking of playing around with that myself again sometime :)
