Hi Nikhil,
I don't know if it still the case (you'd have found this if you
search the archives I imagine) but it use to be you needed to introduce a
delay in the boot process (which meant a kernel patch) to allow USB
devices time to respond. If you are not actually trying to boot but mount
the disk during the installation process then that can't be the issue but
I thought I'd mention it just in case.
regards,
Stephen.
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Nikhil Kakkar wrote:
> Hi
> I posted a couple of days back about installing mandriva 10.2 on an
> external hard drive. I was playing around with it today and i saw a
> few things i was wondering anyone could help me out with.
>
> I partitioned the disk using partition magic and tried installing it.
> This time it was able to see the disk and also format it. In fact it
> went upto installing a few packages and then it started giving me
> errors, it could not find a whole bunch of packages to install in the
> documentation section. So i clicked no in one and the install stopped.
> After that there have been times when i was able to format the drive
> but when it came to mounting it, i would get some error such as dir or
> root not found or something along those lines. Also sometimes i got
> fschk errors-- it wasnt able to check the errors. Now sometimes i am
> able to see the drive some times i am not.
>
> I would request some one/anyone who know how i can extract the systtem
> log for an install to tell me how to do it and then i can post the
> log.
> I am now thinking of rebuilding the kernel with usb-storage drivers
> built in -- but i need to figure out how to do that first.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Nikhil Kakkar
>
>
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