On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:11 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Now the kernel boots (even with bootsplash!) but it cannot mount the > root file system /dev/sda2. Normally usb-mass-storage is initialissed > very late in the boot process. It comes after mount -a. I also don't > know if the necessary drivers are compiled into the SuSE kernel or if > they are later loaded as modules. Would it be possible to boot the SuSE > kernel with the Gentoo-partition as root file system and then, > immidiatly after mounting /dev/sda2 chroot there? I only want to run the > SuSE kernel with SuSE X and all other SuSE programs. What is actually > booted is not very important.
Short answer, no. You need to get whatever fires up the usb-hard drive into the initrd.
