On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Steffen Loos <fe...@gmx.net> wrote: > Xi Shen schrieb: >> >> sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;) >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote: >>>> >>>> hi, >>>> >>>> i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb, >>>> ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot >>>> find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed? >>>> >>> You missed the filesystem driver for / compiled into the kernel > > 1. please don't toppost!
ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;) > 2. What alan said: have you compiled ext4 or whatever you use for your > root-fs compiled _into_ the kernel? yes, i use ext4 and it is compiled into the kernel. > 3. Suggestion from me: have you _all_ usb-staff, you need to access the > usb-hd compiled _into_ the kernel? (e.a. usb_storage) not as module! i compiled the uhci and ehci into the kernel. i need to double check the usb_storage thing. maybe this is the thing i missed. > > > Steffen > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
