Hi, Is there anything specific that must be built into a kernel to boot from a USB flash drive? I'm fiddling with my first flash drive to see how well it might work for my Pundit-R MythTV frontend box. (to reduce noise - no hard drive) I've gotten as far as grub starting, choosing the kernel, and the kernel starts booting. It goes cleanly through the first part of the boot, but then it gets to the point where (I think) the kernel is going to start with all of the OK messages. At that point it tells me that there's some kind of a VFS sync problem, or something like that.
Now the drive is completely accessible when I boot from my hard drive and mount it from the command line. No modules are required to do this so I assume there is the appropriate stuff in the kernel. Here are the modules loaded when reading the drive: myth11 linux # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_usb_audio 63680 0 snd_usb_lib 11520 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 20640 1 snd_usb_lib snd_atiixp 17120 0 snd_ac97_codec 75384 1 snd_atiixp fglrx 240380 0 agpgart 28968 1 fglrx myth11 linux # Here's what I think is the major clue: First, when it fails to boot, it tells me that it cannot find /dev/sda2. Immediately following that it identifies the Maxtor flash drive, see two partitions, and says they are called sda1 and sda2. So, is this some sort of ordering problem? Does the kernel possibly need a boot line config option to tell it to boot from SCSI or something? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
