I want to run linux installed on a partition on a USB disk.
In the past, I achieve that with a parallel-port to IDE
adapter box with a common IDE hard disk inside, as well as
with a parallel iomega ZIP. It works well.
In either case I used a floppy that boots the kernel,
telling it where the root filesystem is. That worked
because the kernel _does_ detect the devices and partitions
_BEFORE_ VFS tries to mount the root file system.
My problem with the USB disk, is that the device gets
detected _after_ VFS tries to mount the root file system,
and therefore it can't mount it.
I assume this behaviour is due to the plug-and-play
nature of USB devices.
The question:
does anybody knows a way to force the kernel
to detect USB disks before mounting
the root device?
BTW: Of course the drivers for USB and USB
mass storage support are compiled into the kernel.
Thanks in advace, and thanks to those who told me
last week to use kernel 2.4 to support USB disks.
jordi bataller
Gandia
SPAIN
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