On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:55:21PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 06:18:14AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Zoran Kolic wrote: > >>>>Is your BIOS able to boot from a portable USB driveand is the > >>>>portable > >>>>USB drive bootable? > >>>Bios is ami and sees devices as I connect them to the interface. The > >>>other > >>>part of question: in this moment I have only enclosure. Tomorrow gonna > >>>buy 2.5 hdd. It _must_ be bootable. > >>>Theoretically, there should not be any reason not to successed to > >>>install > >>>on usb disk and not to write _any_ data on internal hdd. It is a > >>>proof of > >>>concept not to disconnect internal drive. > >>>Should I post additional info? > >> > >>I am having trouble using my USB disk with mkinitrd.yaird, because you > >>cannot generate the image on a different system than the one you would > >>boot from. At least I don't know how. > > > >chroot into the system and run mkinitrd.yaird within the chroot. > > That doesn't work, I tried.
meaning that the initrd generated won't boot? or that mkinitrd fails? output? > > > YOu > >can also manually edit bits of the yaird config files to make it point > >to the right devices for booting. > > But what to change? Documentation is very scarce. I had success editing MOUNTDIR and MOUNTDEV in /etc/yaird/Default.cfg when I was in the process of moving my system to RAID. You've got to get the initrd to point to the right device for "/" so that when does the pivot-root it will be there. So what device does the USB disk com up as and change MOUNTDEV so that it points to that device. Note that it still needs to appear in fstab the right way. I actually built an initrd in a different system (same machine) by modifying the in-place fstab, and /etc/yaird/Default.cfg so that they matched the way the new system was supposed to come up. made the initrd and transferred it to the new system and it worked. ymmv A
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