Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Wednesday 13 March 2013 22:34:59 you wrote: > >>> When an external disk is connected from the very beginning (USB), >>> the boot process of the LFS system stops with a kernel panic: > First of all, thank you very much for the very extensive answer and all the > links. We have been working on them, so it took a little of time for us to > report. > > In order to make this mail small, we put all the answers and additional > informations in a file to be downloaded. > > Some additional infos: > > 1.) BLFS is still not starting with connected external disk > > 2.) fdisk -l ( see file ) delivers a little comment which I cannot judge: > "Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary" > > 2.) Rootdelay of, let me say, 50 in the grub command, as suggested by Kenno > Han,does not change the behaviour. But: if the Toshiba disk is connected > _during_ the delay time, the boot process finish succesfull. > > We would not like to go to heavy arms like gptfdisk at this moment, as we are > afraid to kill the system. But we think, it is an interesting issue. > > Again, thank you very much. > > Edgar > > Informations, answers etc.: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic > >
Is the external drive bootable, does it have a grub bootloader ? Can you try to force the ThinkPad to boot on the internal HD, when the external one is connected, using its boot menu (key F12 during startup). Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
