Um yes it is. How could I otherwise have booted far enough to get the panic? My boot partition is on the usb I cant boot from hard drive.
----Ursprungligt meddelande---- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Apr 15, 2005 9:29:06 AM Till: gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ärende: RE: Booting from USB with initrd Is USB even an option to boot off of in the BIOS? How could the OS boot to something that isn't detected in the bios? IMHO. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gabriel Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:28 AM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Booting from USB with initrd Hi Im trying to boot an encrypted file system using an initrd on a USB. I use syslinux for the actual boot process as I couldnt get Grub to boot of it for some reason. This is the .cfg default vmlinuz timeout 100 prompt 1 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rootfstype=minix init=/linuxrc As far as I can tell this should load the initrd but that never happens. Everything seems to boot fine. Syslinux loads the kernel and I get to the point where initrd should be mounted only to get this error. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) followed by the USB information and stop. <5> Vendor SWISSBIT Mode: Victorinox 2.0 Rev 2.00 Type Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 1022720 512 byte hdwr sectors (524mb) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: asuming driver cache: write-through I have support for minix, vfat, ext2 and ext3 in the kernel. I have recompiled the kernel like 20 times to test different things. So what Im thinking is that the USB device doesn't get realized before syslinux tries to load it? Oh I do have the ramdisk in the kernel and everything. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
