[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: / I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... // three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. / I think it's a bad idea to put a swap partition on a flash drive... or is that obsolete knowledge? Its there by habit - and I hope I dont need it. Just investigating a

[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote: / I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT // machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - // ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: // // VFS cannot open root device NULL please append

Re: [CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote: I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I tried root=/dev/sda2

[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-6-2008 12:33 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: Hi all, I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I