Am Sonntag, 20. August 2006 14:46 schrieb Ken Moffat: > 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.
I am not sure wether I am correct, but in fact I boot from my scsi disk. There is a GRUB installed in the MBR. That GRUB boots the GRUB on the USB disk. > 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-f >rom-an-external-usb-flash-disk/ (yes, I know ithat site is about booting > from flash, but it might be worth trying). The kernel gets started. It just hangs later on. > Other than that, make sure that all your usb requirements are built > in to the kernel (EHCI|OHCI|UHCI USB_STORAGE, BLK_DEV_SD). (part of) linux kernel configuration: ------------------------------------------------------ Device Drivers ---> USB support ---> <*> Support for Host-side USB [*] USB verbose debug messages [*] USB device file system <*> EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support <M> OHCI HCD support <*> UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support <*> USB Mass Storage support [*] USB Mass Storage verbose debug I will change the one "modul" entry to an "built-in" entry and try it again afterwards. > Ken Leonhard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
