Hello there, I`ve read a few articles about using USB mass storage devices for a root fs on Linux. However my attempts were quite unsuccessful. Recently I bough an USB 'Key'/pendrive/whatever-you-wanna-call-it, I manage to use it as a simple device for storage, and also manage to boot off it without any problems, despite the success of those attempts, i couldnt make the thing work as a root fs, it was dying on the init, i suppose somewhere around mount_block_root(), i suppose it got the wrong values out of dev_name_struct structure, the device doesnt exist on 08:01(according to the output, the device is sda1), where 0800 belogns to the sda device, somehow i think there is glitch or something between kernel calls <-> scsi emul <-> usb-mass-storage, which i couldnt find. Also despite the fact that I did add a schedule_timeout() to wait for the device to be discovered and after that to try and access it.
The BIOS finds the USB device as a USB FDD. Any ideas/workarounds/information are highly apreciated. TIA cheers, -lou -- Lou Kamenov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD BGUG http://www.freebsd-bg.org http://secureroot.org.uk Key Fingerprint - 936F F64A AD50 2D27 07E7 6629 F493 95AE A297 084A One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. - Franklin P. Jones ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
