How to boot FC3 from a USB hard disk??

[Antonio Montagnani]

Antonio Montagnani ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 19/03/2005 09:54:

> I start a new thread in order to lower noise as the previuos was 
> becoming too long.
>
> I performed a installation on an external hard disk (Eide HD in a USB 
> enclosure)
> Please note that I had to add the noacpi option to linux expert, 
> otherwise installation froze.
>
> During installation I decided not to install Grub as my goal is to 
> have a system booting Linux when the external HD i sconnected 
> otherwise Windows must be started. No choices to the user....and I 
> want to be connect to any system (mainly laptops) and use Linux
>
> When I rebooted the system, of course it didn't boot (USB booting is 
> available).
>
> I tried to follow instructions at www.simonf.com/usb but I got lost.
> When I issued the command
> mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod 
> --preload=sd_mod /boot/usbinitrd.img 2.6.9-1.667smp
>
> I get the reply that /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667smp is not a directory!!!
>
> Where is my mistake??
>
> And after that as I have no grub.conf to modify, what shall I have to 
> do to start Linux???
>
> TNX
>
I changed the command to:
mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod 
--preload=sd_mod /boot/usbinitrd.img 2.6.9-1.667

and it worked creating an usbinitrd.img

And now how to start if grub is not installed????


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 Antonio M.

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