Someone already posted on something smilar to this, but I've got the same problem, so I'm asking again.
Has anyone successfully mounted their root partition from a USB mass storage device? I'm playing with a USB zip 250 with a 100 MB disk right now using slackware's zipslack. The kernel seems to be compiled with what's needed because if I run it off of a SCSI or parallel zip drive, I can mount a disk in the USB drive without loading any modules. The kernel is compuled with USB support, the UHCI contoller support, SCSI support and SCSI hard disk support, which is all I know of that it needs. I really want to get this working off of a USB pen drive, but I don't have one to play with. Here are some relavent lines from dmesg when I booted my installation from my scsi zip drive. There was a disk in the USB drive at the time. These messages flew by though. I don't think the kernel gave the drive a chance to read the disk. scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1609 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: 90.V Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sdc : READ CAPACITY failed. sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 ASC= 4 ASCQ= 2 Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x12 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 unable to read partition table Any ideas of a way to get this working? Would a USB pen drive be any different, or would it suffer the same problem? Thanks for your help, Joel Ebel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
