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 1NLI4B-0005CP-5w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7CFCE0C6E; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f187.google.com (mail-yw0-f187.google.com [209.85.211.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C786EE0C6E for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh17 with SMTP id 17so2603256ywh.2 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kROed+DpJ3zwDEJhML2HtlmiUKhonV20ZBI4yQgJS+c=; b=ldvCyAxDUqx7teXx1GVeq7pQEMqSfqkKu9tzje7eLl+GRaowiElm/DVUHR0u5TPndd NrdySwvsLFhsjYB78ucwCGxpB143ZipCseGz7SfQJEm7GDRyFeFmpFwDgaf7QfTaqP9g mYX/FLRc7NOqQCbqgpHiURu+CgNdXQ1G0BCZc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LuwgI1OFgQqcpMBPZ7A4oiGy+rnbyPU8hFIzNgsouX+NuL7XCsJMjr/Dsr0whV7dzV x+/EHtl4zn+zi7XrCMyjiJriCFOZnzpKBux3/6IsUv7Vidkk1RQFmBhtPWiYBOu4wieT oNydzkS7NhUEFxPg/4FrB3SRGNzndoFdXwaIc= Received: by 10.90.245.1 with SMTP id s1mr403107agh.119.1261062882357; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-91-104.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.91.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm889153yxb.43.2009.12.17.07.14.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B2A4ADE.30909@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:14:38 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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-Archives-Salt: 5f036f27-a1f3-4b26-bcb2-87a33e94c1f2 X-Archives-Hash: adacc639c3b77de52b1d888c6b792ba8 What file system did you use on the USB drive? Did you compile support for that file system in the kernel? It can't be a module, it has to be compiled into the kernel itself. Dale P. S. Top posted because he did. Please don't shoot the messenger. Xi Shen wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >> >> >> > > > >