On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Willie Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: >> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb, >> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot >> find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed? > > I don't completely understand your question: if it cannot find your > usb hd and you installed on the usb HD, how did you boot? >
i boot from the livedvd, and installed it on my usb hd. and the system can boot normally if i use genkernel, i think it is because the initramfs generated by genkernel loaded something that i missed. > Did you install the bootloader on the USB HD? yes, i use grub. > Did you get to the bootloader screen at all? yes, i can see the screen, and the kernel load log. but the system dies when trying to mount the root and start the system. > What cannot find your USB HD? > > Tell us in more detail what you did, and what didn't work. Your > description is so vague that for all I know cosmic rays could've > caused your problem. > > W > -- > "`I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very > depressed.'" > "`Life, don't talk to me about life.'" > "`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to > take you down to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"? > 'Cos I don't.'" > "`I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my > left side.'" > > - Guess who. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1105 days, 13:11 > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
