Re: Booting from USB

[Salvatore De Paolis]

On Thu, 3 May 2007 11:40:39 +0900 (JST)
zunda <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Salvatore,
> 
> This is zunda, who is also playing with a small Linux booted from
> USB memory: http://zunda.freeshell.org/docomomo/dist/

Thanks, i'll take a look at this...

> My guess it that you would have to provide the root= kernel
> parameter correctly. GRUB loads the kernel (and initrd) from the
> USB drive and starts the kernel. The kernel may see the internal
> HDD as /dev/hda and the USB memory as /dev/sda. 

Yeah. As first start I used the UUID to be sure to have a fixed way to point at
the device, but in this way i get the hard disk booting, right after the kernel
is loaded from usb.
Now i'm testing with root=/dev/sdb, that should be on my system cause on my
laptop HDD is a sata under /dev/sda.

 
> P.S. Salvatore, sorry to have sent an e-mail directly to you.
> I send the same message to the bug-grub ML.

Sure, no problem;)

regards
Salvatore

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