Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:47:06 +0800 (SGT) | From | Jeff Chua <> | Subject | Re: Can't mount USB partition as root |
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You'll need to load the usb modules using initrd ramdisk, then switch root to the usb device to continue booting the system.
Thanks, Jeff [ jchua@fedex.com ]
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-2] Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> Hello > > I tried to boot Linux 2.6.0 kernel with option root=/dev/sda1 using Grub. > The kernel otherwise works, mounts the sda1 partition (XFS) OK. > When I boot the kernel with root=/dev/sda1 instead of root=/dev/hda4, > I get "can't mount root VFS, kernel panic" or something like that. > > Is it possible to boot kernel with root from /dev/sda1 (USB)? > partition table: whole /dev/sda is one partition (sda1), type 83 (Linux). > Tried also switching on and off hotplugging in kernel and it didn't help. > > Cl< > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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