Installing FC4 on USB drive (newbie)

Jenz Nilsson jenz.nilsson at telia.com
Mon Nov 21 06:43:50 UTC 2005


Yes fc4 is my only and will be mine my only os on that disk

//Jenz



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gary" <garys at mtaonline.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: Installing FC4 on USB drive (newbie)


> 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
> 
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