david
Randy.Dunlap wrote:
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:35:54 -0800 (PST) "Stephen J. Gowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Try searching the list archive. There was patch to delay the mount attempt | to give USB time to wakeup. I'm not sure if that patch is in 2.4.22 or | not.
The patch that I posted applies to 2.4.22. It's located in this dir: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/usb/
If you try it, please let me know how it goes or if it needs some tweaking. I was thinking about making it loop 10 times and then fail instead of trying forever.
| On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, David Mattes wrote:
| | > hi,
| >
| > i have a computer with a new BIOS that supports USB-HDD booting and i
| > have an IOmega 256MB USB storage device. i'm trying to get these to
| > boot linux 2.4.22. the boot sequence makes it to the point where it
| > actually has to mount the root partition, and it fails. i have scsi
| > support built-in, and i know the device is recognized (sorry i can't
| > duplicate the messages here). i get the classic error:
| >
| > VFS: Cannot open root device sda1 (08:01)
| >
| > even though i included the root=/dev/sda1 boot option. it seems to me
| > that the sd_mod driver isn't being loaded? if it were, the kernel would
| > know to mount /dev/sda1 on /. does anyone have experience with this?
| > i'm trying to avoid using an initrd to load the drivers.
| >
| > thanks,
| > david
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~Randy
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