On 13 Ιαν 2007, at 4:19 ΠΜ, Michael Crawford wrote: > Hi, > > You might be able to do it if the kernel and rdisk image (boot-time > ramdisk) are on your internal drive. Just set up your root and other > filesystems to be on the USB drive. It will appear to be a SCSI disk, > as USB storage encapsulates SCSI CDBs in USB packets.
I have already altered the initramfs in order to include and specifically load the modules needed for USB support. I have created a special script under /etc/initramfs-tools/scrips/ init-premount , which produces 10 seconds delay. This delay is nessesary, or else half of the time booting fails. The proposed lilo parapmeter "rootdelay=10" didn't work. I am really interested on how you can leave the ramdisk on the internal hard drive, since booting from the USB drive is too slow. I know how to do this using elilo.efi & rEFit, but this will not boot Linux in (old) BIOS-compatibility mode, right? So I won't have the benefits of video hardware acceleration. On 13 Ιαν 2007, at 3:12 ΠΜ, Jay Lewis wrote: > Try passing the kernel option video=imacfb:macbook on boot. Then > rejoice ;) > > Also of use are: > video=imacfb:i17 > video=imacfb:i20 > video=imacfb:mini > > Jay These options are for EFI-powered linux. As I said before, if I boot it this way, I won't have hardware acceleration. (I hope I am not missing something) Is there any way to boot like this, but have a fully functional "BIOS- powered" linux? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
