From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLBKY-0000o6-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:03:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F9DEE0ACB; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510ECE0ACB for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so1979069ewy.26 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:02:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=HE3S5/CCafo8FghptXG0jLtE0ky4U0p81elFcemuOhY=; b=aiHw0tNa30ZJRVyxwUxvMvczvmBLfquTKIjys5xIXyx+P08CFX3Df3SD21MNbJ6s4N XB14IR9q7qr9G4zaWla9zBrLP2f8K20ZDfRUDesdKrbsHEQ1l3NS0qVQfVXUvC4KAaL5 Lt4G2ata7SRuSrrystNatpA7wBbPZRwnHYQIw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=eslrHW9Eh/qFu3TBy0lmrqpIMDADvzp4PMdUup8tN1JuRClKvVqtNMhdKvEKVdzLal FqFRVxqIXqckMvmB4NnVq2ZB1tu5vBp47zLFtbcXtdjiNhvoHFh7TSHSx8b68xGs3apo gMuQCMhrpomWoUYnyop+hFKzxIUZyIIhxi6Dw= Received: by 10.213.2.82 with SMTP id 18mr2384474ebi.58.1261036954777; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm1089920ewy.9.2009.12.17.00.02.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:02:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:01:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-zen9; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b5406110-6941-49c7-8d5d-7bb52d938416 X-Archives-Hash: 3196579c366b518fdbacc5c39078b345 On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:47:14 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb, > ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot > find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed? > You missed the filesystem driver for / compiled into the kernel -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com