FC5 USB booting - uptodate nash man page

[Antonio Montagnani]

John Austin ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 29/03/2006 
18:34:
> Hi
> I'm trying to understand why two of my
> machines will successfully boot FC5 from an
> external USB disk and one will not.
>
> initrd_usb.gz has been created right at the end of a
> clean FC5 install to a USB disk in "linux expert" mode.
> After removing the FC5 DVD
> Cont/Alt/F2
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> /sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage \
> --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd_usb.gz \
> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> This USB disk boots successfully on two machines with a bit of tweaking
> of grub interactively during the first boot and then changing  grub.conf
> as required.
>  
> gunzip -c initrd_usb.gz | cpio -i
> shows me the init file with "undocumented" commands such as
> mkblkdevs
> resume
> mkrootdev	seems to have changed from man pages
> mount		seems to have changed from man pages
> setuproot
>
> There appears to be no mkinitrd in core-source
> I can guess what some of the commands do but
> would like to know for sure.
>
> Advise as to where to find the details of the
> way nash now works would be great.
>
> Any other hints please
>
> Regards
> John
>
>
>   
Hi John

you know that I am a newbie on USB boot.
On the unsuccessfull machine, which is the message during boot?

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