On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:40:08PM +0200, Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: > > As I said: My boot device for LFS is an external USB hard disk. In fact, it > is > a Western Digital WD2500BB in an external USB case. > I've not been following this whole thread, so apologies if you've already answered the questions below.
Do you know if your bios can boot from an external disk ? You might have to go through the bios settings to make it possible. If the answer to that is yes, google has a lot of people asking questons about doing this, and not many relevant answers. Possibly, passing a rootdelay argument to grub might help, see http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2005/11/booting-linux-userland-from-an-external-usb-flash-disk/ (yes, I know ithat site is about booting from flash, but it might be worth trying). Other than that, make sure that all your usb requirements are built in to the kernel (EHCI|OHCI|UHCI USB_STORAGE, BLK_DEV_SD). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
