Some people have reported success by hacking the kernel to pause for a few
seconds to allow full enumeration of USB device before trying to mount the
root filesystem.
There are some patches floating around -- I don't have them tho.
Matt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:57:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I want to run linux installed on a partition on a USB disk.
>
> In the past, I achieve that with a parallel-port to IDE
> adapter box with a common IDE hard disk inside, as well as
> with a parallel iomega ZIP. It works well.
>
> In either case I used a floppy that boots the kernel,
> telling it where the root filesystem is. That worked
> because the kernel _does_ detect the devices and partitions
> _BEFORE_ VFS tries to mount the root file system.
>
> My problem with the USB disk, is that the device gets
> detected _after_ VFS tries to mount the root file system,
> and therefore it can't mount it.
> I assume this behaviour is due to the plug-and-play
> nature of USB devices.
>
> The question:
>
> does anybody knows a way to force the kernel
> to detect USB disks before mounting
> the root device?
>
> BTW: Of course the drivers for USB and USB
> mass storage support are compiled into the kernel.
>
> Thanks in advace, and thanks to those who told me
> last week to use kernel 2.4 to support USB disks.
>
> jordi bataller
> Gandia
> SPAIN
>
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