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


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