Hello, David Following the link below, you wrote: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003639.html [syslinux] Isolinux booting to /root on USB Drive David Forslund forslund at mail.com <mailto:syslinux%40zytor.com?Subject=%5Bsyslinux%5D%20Isolinux%20booting%20to%20/root%20on%20USB%20Drive&In-Reply-To=> Sun Jun 13 00:11:10 PDT 2004 * Previous message: [syslinux] Possible source problem in 2.10-pre5 <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003641.html> * Next message: [syslinux] Splash Image <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003640.html> * Messages sorted by: [ date ] <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/date.html#3639> [ thread ] <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/thread.html#3639> [ subject ] <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/subject.html#3639> [ author ] <http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/author.html#3639> ________________________________ I'm having trouble configuring syslinux/isolinux to get it to see the root partition on an external USB drive. The system doesn't enable direct boot from a USB drive, so I'm trying to configure a bootable CDROM that will boot up and use the USB drive where the OS is. Any suggestions as how to make this work. I've tried using Suse 9.1 and I can get isolinux to load the USB drivers (at least it says so), but then when I try to get to the /root partition, it can't find it. I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install disk and then finish booting up from the USB drive, so I know there is some way to make this work. I'm trying to reduce the effort required to boot from the external drive. Thanks, Do you resolve this problem? I am trying to resolve it. And you said ?I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install disk and then finish booting up from the USB drive, so I know there is some way to make this work. ? How do you do this successfully? Can you tell me? Sincerely, ??? David Xiao I T Suzhou SV Precision Components Co., Ltd. Changshu, Jiangsu, China, 215500
Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2006-Aug-27 03:57 UTC
[syslinux] Isolinux booting to /root on USB Drive
El S?bado, 26 de Agosto de 2006 03:47, David Xiao escribi?:> I'm having trouble configuring syslinux/isolinux to get it to see the root > partition on an external USB drive. The system doesn't enable direct boot > from a USB drive, so I'm trying to configure a bootable CDROM that will > boot up and use the USB drive where the OS is. Any suggestions as how to > make this work. I've tried using Suse 9.1 and I can get isolinux to load > the USB drivers (at least it says so), but then when I try to get to the > /root partition, it can't find it. I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install > disk and then finish booting up from the USB drive, so I know there is some > way to make this work. I'm trying to reduce the effort required to boot > from the external drive. > > Thanks, > > Do you resolve this problem? I am trying to resolve it. > > And you said ?I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install disk and then finish > booting up from the USB > > drive, so I know there is some way to make this work. ? > > How do you do this successfully? Can you tell me? >[Off Topic] I don't know who you want to talk to, but you wrote to the list instead... I do some tricks on our Gentoo Live-DVD ware, with a small CD-CARD about 35MB, I'm actually using it on a small preety laptop-hdd usb case if you are curious, disasmeble the initrd file on the small USB-HDD boot image, and as you can see, we load every driver related to SATA, and USB storage devices, and then perform a search for a file on every available root device, if found what we looking for, we have two choices, as we got support for our storage device we can change our real root device and exit from our initscripts, or mount our loopback file or real partition and link some files to execute init. -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com