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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)
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On 11/19/06, Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:
> If anyone has been able to boot from a USB 2.0 drive, I would appreciate
> some pointers on how to get this installation working.
Yes. The fact that you made it to the "VFS: Cannot open root device"
message means that you successfully "booted" from the drive, in the
sense that the BIOS found a drive to boot from, and that grub (or
lillo) loaded and started executing the kernel. At this point, it is
down to your kernel configuration or the options passed to it by the
bootloader.
As long as the BIOS supports booting from a USB drive, the proceedure
is basically the same...make sure you have all the right drivers
compiled into your kernel (USB support, USB Mass Storage, SCSI disk,
and filesystem), and pass the appropriate root= option to the kernel.
Can you post the output of "grep -i -e =y -e =m
/usr/src/linux/.config", "fdisk -l", and your grub.conf (assuming you
are using grub to boot).
-Richard
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