Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

[Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked:
>> 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?
>
> I don't completely understand your question: if it cannot find your
> usb hd and you installed on the usb HD, how did you boot?
>

i boot from the livedvd, and installed it on my usb hd. and the system
can boot normally if i use genkernel, i think it is because the
initramfs generated by genkernel loaded something that i missed.

> Did you install the bootloader on the USB HD?

yes, i use grub.

> Did you get to the bootloader screen at all?

yes, i can see the screen, and the kernel load log. but the system
dies when trying to mount the root and start the system.

> What cannot find your USB HD?
>
> Tell us in more detail what you did, and what didn't work. Your
> description is so vague that for all I know cosmic rays could've
> caused your problem.
>
> W
> --
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> depressed.'"
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> "`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to
> take you down to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"?
> 'Cos I don't.'"
> "`I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my
> left side.'"
>
> - Guess who.
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>



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