Hey, I figured this might be the place to ask because I'm kind of hitting a wall. I decided to buy an external USB hard drive (250GB Seagate Freeagent) and use it as my Linux drive. I already had Windows installed on my system's hd and didn't want to move partitions around or reinstall, so everything linux went onto the USB drive.
I chose Gentoo just for giggles and when I booted the system off CD, the usb drive shows up as 'sdb'. I was able to install everything to it, but when I boot from it, I have several issues: 1) Rolling my own kernel, the kernel loads and then panics complaining it can't find sdb, only sda (which is my internal SATA drive.) 2) Using the genkernel (same kernel config that the CD boots with), it does boot, but drops to a prompt after complaining it can't find the ROOT drive. (Now the USB drive is known as 'sda' again.) It prompts for the ROOT partition or 'shell', so I enter the same drive that is in my 'root=' statement in my grub.conf and the system keeps right on booting. My guess is that the USB drivers might be slow to respond to setting it up as a SCSI drive by the time it hits the 'mount root and go' point? I'm not sure if anyone here has tried this or not. Anyhow, any suggestions or requests for info would be appreciated. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
