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Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on usb hard drive
From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley () earthlink ! net>
Date: 2004-09-06 21:00:48
Message-ID: 003001c49454$96347340$6601a8c0 () computer
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Hi,
I've been fighting with this system most of the weekend. The problem i'm running \
into is booting from a usb hd. The livecd detects it just fine.
First time through I built the kernel manually and stuck pretty close to the \
install.txt for partitioning, etc. The major difference of course is that my drive \
shows up as /dev/sda (scsi 0,0,0). And the built-in drive (s-ata) shows up as sdb on \
scsi 2,0,0. I'm running an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard. 2004.2 using the smp \
kernel (2.6.7r11) panics when net-setup is run. So I did the install using gentoo \
(2.4.26r6) but built 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (gentoo-dev-sources). I've answered a lot of my \
own questions with web searches (initrd linuxrc script needs to be modified to rescan \
the scsi bus after usb drivers load). But being a newbie I haven't been able to \
figure out how to get into initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 to edit the script.
Any assistance would be appreciated! BTW, since the livecd boot works and detects \
the drive, why doesn't the initrd generated by genkernel do the same? Is this a \
feature that can be included in a future release? Optionally, where are the files \
that genkernel uses to build the initrd in the first place? Can I edit those prior \
to running genkernel initrd?
Thanks!
Cecil Whitley
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been fighting with this system most of the
weekend. The problem i'm running into is booting from a usb hd. The
livecd detects it just fine. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First time through I built the kernel manually and
stuck pretty close to the install.txt for partitioning, etc. The major
difference of course is that my drive shows up as /dev/sda (scsi 0,0,0).
And the built-in drive (s-ata) shows up as sdb on scsi 2,0,0. I'm running
an Asus p4c800-e deluxe motherboard. 2004.2 using the smp kernel
(2.6.7r11) panics when net-setup is run. So I did the install using gentoo
(2.4.26r6) but built 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (gentoo-dev-sources). I've answered a
lot of my own questions with web searches (initrd linuxrc script needs to be
modified to rescan the scsi bus after usb drivers load). But being a
newbie I haven't been able to figure out how to get into initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r3
to edit the script. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any assistance would be appreciated! BTW,
since the livecd boot works and detects the drive, why doesn't the initrd
generated by genkernel do the same? Is this a feature that can be included
in a future release? Optionally, where are the files that genkernel uses
to build the initrd in the first place? Can I edit those prior to running
genkernel initrd?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cecil Whitley</FONT></DIV>
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