Do you have scsi in the kernel too? On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Chr H-N wrote:
> Hi. > > I am building a small (<16MB) portable > linux-installation. > > I want this linux-installation to be on an USB-disk > (it works on ramdisk and NFS), but I can not make it > work on USB: > > The kernel command line says root=/dev/sda1, > but the kernel says: > kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on /dev/sda1. > The partition check displays the IDE drive but not the > USB - presumably because USB is initialized at a late > stage in the boot process. > > USB loads correctly and is compiled into the kernel > (modules are not present before root fs is mounted, so > modules must be compiled-in). > > I can access the disk if I boot the same installation > over NFS or in a RAM disk, but I can not mount my root > file system on the USB disk. > > I do the booting with LOADLIN and an appropriate > command line. > > Any help to make the USB driver see the disk at init > time would be greatly appreciated. > > Kind regards > Christian Hildebrandt-Nielsen > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! > Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server > today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
