USB is completely unsupported, I did compile the modules and put them on the add-ons site, but I have never done any USB on tomsrtbt. I would welcome any information on what works and what doesn't, especially how whether usb works at all, whether a usb hard drive can be sucessfully mounted at all, usb tape backups, etc... Any information about how you got USB booting to work would be good, too. My experience when I tried to play with 2.2.x USB was not great, but maybe I just didn't know what I was doing. I recently acquired a USB and Firewire backup drive, and added Firewire support to the add-ons, and tested backup and restore with the Firewire connection. The system doesn't have USB 2.0, I think, so I didn't bother to try that, but at least now I have a way to try it. I have seen comments saying that usb-storage doesn't work on kernel 2.2.x, but the module is there, so maybe it does work. I'll play with it, and try to get as far as usb-storage working. But, the initrd *still* won't work, because the tomsrtbt cd boot initrd just boots and quits, it doesn't load modules then boot some more. -Tom
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, jason wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:42:20 -0500 (EST) > From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] ok, I think I have a valid question now.. ;) > > im trying to boot this off a 32meg usb disk. The problem is (i believe) is > that the usb modules (usb-storage,usbcore,usb-uhci) are not in the initrd. > when I put the bootable image onto the usb drive, I only get as far as: > L 80 80 80... etc.. > > Are there docs or a response on the mailing list that clearly documents to > to add this? Ive extracted with the unpack.s, but dont see anywhere they > could go.. Im assuming they go in the initrd, but how do you get them in > there? > > regards, > Jason >
