On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Vinceido Lipose wrote:

Well, you've asked 3 times, so I'll give it a try.

| I'm running RedHat 7.2 on my laptop with a USB floppy drive.
|
| I've tried both the "dd" and "mkbootdisk" command to create boot disks.
|
| # dd if=initrd.img of=/dev/sda
| # mkbootdisks --device /dev/sda 2.4.7-10
|
| The boot disks were created, but on reboot it doesn't
| work. Either it displays "Boot failed" or it just hang.
|
| Any advice ?

USB boot needs a small delay during kernel init, so apply
one of these patches to your kernel:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100912381726661&w=2
or
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-users&m=100408963708374&w=2

and let us know the results.

| Btw, this is what I did to mount my USB floppy :
|
| # mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
|
| This works but I'm not sure if this is the correct way.

That looks correct to me (for media without a partition).

-- 
~Randy


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