Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
HI Alan, > > > 1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for > /dev/sda > > > and /dev/sda1. Otherwise you won't have any way to access the > USB > > > device. > > > > Or you have to have udev running. I think this is what Fedora does. > > Peter Jones said he was booting

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Pete, Tks fo your advice. - snip - > > 1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for > /dev/sda > > and /dev/sda1. Otherwise you won't have any way to access the USB > > device. > > Or you have to have udev running. Whether I need to install "udev" on the pendriv

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Alan, Tks for your advice. - snip - > It looks like there are two key issues: > > 1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for > /dev/sda > and /dev/sda1. Otherwise you won't have any way to access the USB > device. It did not to come to step yet because t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ken, Tks for your advice and link. - snip - > I have configured a 256M USB hard drive as a bootable device, loaded > a basic linux 2.6 OS and able to get it to boot. I use the device as > a loader to configure computers that have no image on their hard > drive. My case maybe differs to your

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:30:02 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For almost all devices it can be a lot faster. However usb-storage has a > built-in delay that defaults to 5 seconds. The delay length can be > changed by setting the delay_use= module parameter. But you don't c

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:40:09 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for /dev/sda > > and /dev/sda1. Otherwise you won't have any way to access the USB > > device.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:40:09 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for /dev/sda > and /dev/sda1. Otherwise you won't have any way to access the USB > device. Or you have to have udev running. I think this is

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Ken Cobler wrote: > Stephen Liu wrote: > > >Hi folks, > > > >Would it be possible installing USB pendrive as Hard drive, running > >Grub to boot? > > > >I have been trying couple days making DSL 2.2b running on a pendrive as > >a Hard drive using Grub to boot the device witho

Re: [linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Ken Cobler
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Would it be possible installing USB pendrive as Hard drive, running Grub to boot? I have been trying couple days making DSL 2.2b running on a pendrive as a Hard drive using Grub to boot the device without success. The motherboard supports USB-ZIP/USB-HDD/USB-FDD/S

[linux-usb-devel] How to boot an USB pendrive with Grub

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Would it be possible installing USB pendrive as Hard drive, running Grub to boot? I have been trying couple days making DSL 2.2b running on a pendrive as a Hard drive using Grub to boot the device without success. The motherboard supports USB-ZIP/USB-HDD/USB-FDD/SCSI/etc.booting. The p