Shane C Branch wrote:
A coworker asked my advice on the following scenario:
>here's what i want to do - i have a USB Hard Drive, and i want to install
>linux on there, and be able to boot directly to the drive and actually run
>linux from the external drive via USB. the idea is to have a 'system on an
>external disk' that i could plug into any system with USB and BIOS support
>for booting to USB, and use that system as a dummy terminal.
>i've managed to install Red Hat 7.3 onto the drive, but when i boot to it,
>it loads the kernel and chokes when trying to mount the root file system.
>i think it has something to do with the USB drivers not being compiled
>directly into the kernel. but i'm not sure.
It seems installing to the USB drive is possible, he just has the kernel hiccup mentioned above. So if any of you have advice on how to solve that part, that would be great.
Tell mkinitrd to include the usbdrivers needed, using --preload.
probably needs usbcore, usb-uhci/usb-uhci/uhci, and usb-storage. If you edit /etc/modules.conf to have alias scsi_hostadaptor usb-storage near the top, mkinitrd might grab them itself.
As far as moving the drive from one machine to another as the system drive, I think is would be difficult if not impossible. Has anyone tried it?
Should be OK except for X and networking, unless the machines have the same hardware. Still it'll boot, and you can reconfigure for the new hardware present. -Thomas _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
