Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
> cool solution. remember that the initrd image is just a gzipped cpio > archive. just extract an already existing one and modify the init file > in it. add your modules. and rebuild the initrd out of it. > I wrote onwn mkinitrd, it works now. initrd is any filesystem supported by kernel, typic

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-20 Thread Jinesh K J
On 6/20/06, Ken Cobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wojciech Kromer wrote: > > Dnia 2006-06-19 13:13, Użytkownik Jinesh K J napisał: > > > >> On 6/19/06, Wojciech Kromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> After reading lot of discusions on this issue, I can't still get > >>> why there is an

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-20 Thread Ken Cobler
Wojciech Kromer wrote: > Dnia 2006-06-19 13:13, Użytkownik Jinesh K J napisał: > >> On 6/19/06, Wojciech Kromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> After reading lot of discusions on this issue, I can't still get >>> why there is an error booting from root=/dev/sda1 or even root=8:1. >>

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
Dnia 2006-06-19 13:13, Użytkownik Jinesh K J napisał: > On 6/19/06, Wojciech Kromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After reading lot of discusions on this issue, I can't still get >> why there is an error booting from root=/dev/sda1 or even root=8:1. >> >> > so, what is the error shown? i

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
OK. Thank You. Finally I wrote small script making initrd for my installation. Anyway: > The most common reasons for this to fail are: > > The kernel tries to access to root partition before the > USB and SCSI stacks have created it. > > Hmmm. I can see on my console that usbstor

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-19 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Wojciech Kromer wrote: > After reading lot of discusions on this issue, I can't still get > why there is an error booting from root=/dev/sda1 or even root=8:1. > > I'm using 2.6.15 and grub. > Everything needed to mount /dev/sda1 is compiled into kernel, > and I can mount it

Re: [linux-usb-devel] boot from usb again

2006-06-19 Thread Jinesh K J
On 6/19/06, Wojciech Kromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading lot of discusions on this issue, I can't still get > why there is an error booting from root=/dev/sda1 or even root=8:1. > so, what is the error shown? i hope usb-storage module is built into the kernel! > and I can mount it af