From: Robert Bridge <robert@robbieab.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist [SOLVED somehow]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:14:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15719e8b1001020914g31db1c86x17d6fd0dec905a29@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262443043.26846.71.camel@camille.espersunited.com>
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I should have checked before I sent that last post because
> now /dev/sda is there. Now, how do I make it be there when I first boot
> into Linux?
If your / filesystem is on the USB drive, you need to insert a delay
before mounting it to allow the USB system to stabilise. This is
either done using an initrd or by passing a command line option to the
kernel in the boot loader. Essentially, there is a race condition
between USB initialisation and mounting /.
Appending "rootdelay=10" to the kernel line in your bootloader should solve it.
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2005/11/booting-linux-userland-from-an-external-usb-flash-disk/
has more details of the problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-02 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-01 13:48 [gentoo-user] Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist Michael Sullivan
2010-01-01 14:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-01 14:56 ` Michael Sullivan
2010-01-01 19:37 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-01-02 14:35 ` Michael Sullivan
2010-01-02 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist [SOLVED somehow] Michael Sullivan
2010-01-02 17:14 ` Robert Bridge [this message]
2010-01-02 18:43 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist walt
2010-01-10 2:17 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-01-02 15:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
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