Hi Ken, Tks for your advice and link.
- snip - > I have configured a 256M USB hard drive as a bootable device, loaded > a basic linux 2.6 OS and able to get it to boot. I use the device as > a loader to configure computers that have no image on their hard > drive. My case maybe differs to yours. I want to boot the OS (DSL 2.2b) running on the USB pendrive (I used it as HD) with Grub as boot loader. I have no problem to boot it if installing the same on ZIP geometry and booting it with syslinux. Besides DSL 2.2b is running on kernel-2.4.26 (linux-2.4.26) > The biggest issue with USB device is that to Linux it appears as a > SCSI device. You can get into a catch-22 situation where the device > will boot to get the image, but cannot mount the root filesystem even > though the SCSI driver is installed in the image. That is my problem. DSL 2.2b is running on partition-2 of the pendrive and swap is on partition-1. I could not sort out what shall I put on menu.lst (hd 0) ? (sd 0) ? (sg 0) ? etc. On the BIOS which option to be selected; USB-ZIP ? USB-HDD ? SCSI ? (plug the pendrive on USB port of PCI card) etc. I tried all of them. None of them can work. > The solution I choose was to build a ramdisk image (initrd) with all > the basic /bin and /sbin tools I need. This configuration allows me > to: I got it namely "minirt24" modified from DSL LiveCD. It did not come to this step yet because the boot loader (Grub) not started. I downloaded Grub-0.97.tar.gz from Internet and built it according to the steps of LFS 6.1.1. It worked for me on LFS 6.1.1 (LinuxFromScratch). Does Grub-0.97.tar.gz work on kernel-2.4.26? Others noted with tks. B.R. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
