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 1NLRQx-0002Cn-W6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:15:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 779FCE0BF0; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:14:49 +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 5B0D9E0BF0 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:14:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1720434iwn.32 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:14:49 -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=rssJs01e1wYPKpMy5vGS+uLC9/kfPbJzAmhVuUSZ33g=; b=m3rOnt5uLIjl+t+HIatqd3Ru0XssRS2gkEAcObMB6Xa0s7eaB1ECxNxTsZR4uHFFb5 4XKNoeTuRqamsr+xnx9NWuWkyFClwcoTc7Z8jYBsQN5mttEj9TlQ+2wX6/i4f6sMP54m JeujJECxAb5Bksjf3hStsHIjpOR0juY1LPNCs= 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=bozGOPlIw6sxCNR1dQ0ZLV4Am4CywjaLaneuScW5pEi14fbrGYDPipcI0q6rZFyiyP 6rTZrL5vN4poVs0pnO6pD79aAfnJYhIBghfQq9GT5xHUkzlXonOqa/I3EZZwHXOL7Wwv HcqhLDUV1jVVuOX26Xzj/U8GjFJGPHpk0jbaI= 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 r20mr153179iby.7.1261098888898; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:14:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B2A41D6.70209@gmx.net> References: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <53e35fd50912170210m7c89eb6ft2ae02c5e9b39bcab@mail.gmail.com> <4B2A41D6.70209@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:14:48 +0800 Message-ID: <53e35fd50912171714q38d44fdfkbdfd9794654df935@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: 78d09154-3517-48d1-afab-0ea3abf809cb X-Archives-Hash: d8e0da094afef9b8a152a0f6cfdd747e On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Steffen Loos wrote: > 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! ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;) > 2. What alan said: have you compiled ext4 or whatever you use for your > root-fs compiled _into_ the kernel? yes, i use ext4 and it is 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! i compiled the uhci and ehci into the kernel. i need to double check the usb_storage thing. maybe this is the thing i missed. > > > Steffen > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/