Re: [CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote: I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I tried root=/dev/sda2 and sti

[CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing. Is there something

Re: [CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Jerry Geis wrote: I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. I think it's a bad idea to put a swap partition on a flash drive... or is that obsolete knowledge? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

[CentOS] usb thumbdrive

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. How can I grab my QEMU installed centos 4 image and put it on the ext3 /dev/sdc2 partition on my thumbdrive? THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list Cen