I'm using GRUB on a bootup CD that is intended to direct the computer to continue loading Ubuntu live USB from the attached USB thumbdrive on a Dell Lattitude C610 USB 1.1 port.
I created a grub CD per directions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB#Booting%20the%20kernel%20from%20a%20bootable%20CD The Linux kernel is included on the CD because this laptop is not capable of booting off the USB drive. The GRUB boot CD and thumbdrive works on other computers but on this laptop I get the following errors: ata2.0: EH complete ata2.0: exception emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 sErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.0: status { DRDY } ata2.0: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2.0: device not ready (errno=16) forcing hard reset ata2.0: soft resetting link ata2.0: configured for P103 ata2.0: EH complete ata2.0: limiting speed to P103 There may be subtle typos/omissions in these messages since I had to copy them by hand, but I hope this accurately communicates the problem. My understanding is that after loading the linux kernel off CD, it's trying to continue by accessing the filesystem on the USB drive, which is not accessible. The following bootstring was used: kernel /boot/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true What grub options can I try in attempt to get the bootup process to access the filesystem on the USB drive at boot time? _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
