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 1NLDJy-00031a-OP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:10:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC4FCE0B4A; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f201.google.com (mail-iw0-f201.google.com [209.85.223.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0724E0B4A for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1251074iwn.32 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:10:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=bXESplbRQ7S796RNtXRr/BaGa98n2685fC2UfHPPyuc=; b=Fg7wMSw6d7CR0wnR7KwBOuo6akmM0G4vpJ8VdzqlwFH7d/8OmbMe7LV77iyoN23opw 8ROVWF7gpaSm+FhKb0j+I3+paYQpP6UKXwSceJqMjgzK/LVYYWYk9osAkP5AcKMM9g1q GP4hDLAG2HP5hZ3UzBUeP6Ppeu8n46PXr7giI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=OmqVtHxBLXb+v4u+nkFML+Jomm+Sac28CjiRA4FKRyGMoFtkInAXFkj8b4521eg+y5 2wDda8IICzDmif3BvqhxyvNHgz5+qjUqmm4UyF1gMBc2neq6PYIuNnoDSGOVwtHB7J8a 9jhZi9VyTmBc6yoO4J+BgrQAEI/njPU9No7Ag= 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 Received: by 10.231.167.212 with SMTP id r20mr2285684iby.7.1261044630340; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:10:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:30 +0800 Message-ID: <53e35fd50912170210m7c89eb6ft2ae02c5e9b39bcab@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs From: Xi Shen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 1c085ecc-162f-4fe9-8ccd-9e9e8424ee20 X-Archives-Hash: 2c5b2f6659234d9024a8a3991191b8cf 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 > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/