thanks for the info, I just added rootdelay=8 to my kernel parameters and
that fixed the problem. My USB stick is slightly faster, but not much. I
noticed that there are a lot of BIOSes that do not allow booting from USB
devices :-(. Guess I'll be needing a bootdisk to go with it now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Trying (and failing) to boot LFS from a Compact Flash card
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Jeroen Bruinink wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to boot LFS from a compact flash card using a usb reader. I
installed LFS in an image, using loopback and alfs. USB mass storage and
SCSI
support is in the kernel. I used dd to copy the image to my CF card
(/dev/sda1). Next I installed Grub on the CF card.
Now when I try to boot, I get a kernel panic because the kernel can't
find
/dev/sda1. Is there any way to solve this, preferably without using an
initrd?
I've never tried booting from CF, but I think I've seen people
mentioning that it is very slow to "start" (I think there used to be
patches, perhaps for 2.4, to add a delay). Perhaps there are still
patches out there somewhere. I was going to suggest hacking the
bootscripts, but I guess that even the earliest (mountkernfs) happens
after the kernel has failed to find its root device.
Maybe this has been fixed in a newer kernel.
Ken
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