Thank you much. I'd been searching for a while, but in the usb group. I've applied the patch and it seems to work well.
Mark Huth "Randy.Dunlap" wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Mark Huth wrote: > > | I have a need to boot and install from a USB CDROM. > | > | I've got a CDROM that works fine, and shows up as /dev/scd0 after boot. > | The USB modules are in the kernel, and they all register prior to the > | root fs mount. However, the scsi attach that creates the device seems > | to occur too late for the cd to be used as the root fs. I've tried > | inserting a delay prior to the root fs mount, but that doesn't seem to > | work. Does some one out there know how to fix this problem? > | > | Boot log with other than the cd as root is attached. > | The cdrom root attempt just panics with the usual message about cannot > | mount the root file system try a valid root=command, etc. > > There have been 2 separate/distinct patches for this on the > mailing list in the past. > > One is from Eric Lammerts (subj: Using USB floppy drive for root floppy) > on Dec. 23, 2001 (on the linux-kernel mailing list). > I know that there's another patch that provides similar > functionality, but I can't find it just now. > > -- > ~Randy _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
