Installing FC4 on USB drive (newbie)

[gary]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 01:01 +0100, Jenz Nilsson wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> Im a newbie, and i have a problem (unusual isnt it ^^)
> 
> I have installed FC4 on my external USB hard drive, and followed the
> guide on http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
> 
> I have med three partitions, /boot, /, and swap. I have made mkinitrd
> as told to in the guide, but i havent written any changes to
> grub.conf, because i dont know how to do. Instead, as the guide told
> me, i wrote what kernel and initrd to use directly in grub. When im
> booting it up it says like
> 
> Mounting root file system
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> Switching to new root
> ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> And then some very strange lines with like 01020x0213 blabla, if those
> lines are important i can write them down.
> 
> What can be the problem? Is it that i havent changed the grub.conf? Or
> is it some kind of timing problem thati read about in the guide?
> Please help me! I know you can 
> 
> //Jenz
Is another operating system already install on your usb disk? Will fc4
be your only operating system on the usb disk?    --gary