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 1NLHT6-0006Tb-9u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:36:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85633E0BC1; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05C90E0BC1 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2009 14:36:06 -0000 Received: from sec24c135.gfz-potsdam.de (EHLO [139.17.75.135]) [139.17.75.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 17 Dec 2009 15:36:06 +0100 X-Authenticated: #26584939 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+73RQpLdy7+c9gvrdcTGJkqsS1hZ8wOTr4+N+H4r vgLnnmF/5xFNTQ Message-ID: <4B2A41D6.70209@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:36:06 +0100 From: Steffen Loos User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091119) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs References: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <53e35fd50912170210m7c89eb6ft2ae02c5e9b39bcab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53e35fd50912170210m7c89eb6ft2ae02c5e9b39bcab@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64 X-Archives-Salt: 1952fb90-a00d-47e3-aeec-e1a77591d386 X-Archives-Hash: 1c2b26b223317be1d5eec9e9c57c34b7 Xi Shen schrieb: > sorry, could you be more specific? i cannot follow you ;) > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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 1. please don't toppost! 2. What alan said: have you compiled ext4 or whatever you use for your root-fs compiled _into_ the kernel? 3. Suggestion from me: have you _all_ usb-staff, you need to access the usb-hd compiled _into_ the kernel? (e.a. usb_storage) not as module! Steffen