Re: [MLUG] Booting linux from usb hard drive

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Are you using a monolithic kernel or a modular kernel?

Most of the times I've tried usb boot the volume is un-mounted or  
"lost" when the module initializes....

Would qemu or vmplayer work any better?

George



On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:40 AM, shivers90 wrote:

> I have an external usb hard drive I would like to use
> to install and test different distributions on.  I
> want to do this instead of installing on my internal
> hard drive and erasing my current distribution.  Is
> there a way that I can change the kernel so that the
> usb mass storage driver is loaded before the root file
> system is mounted?  I found the following patch that
> waits until the driver loads:
> http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup-2.6.18.patch
>
> Is there other ways of doing this without using
> initrd?
>
> Mark
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