Re: [SLUG] ext3 on a USB drive

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 19:55:34 EST

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On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:12 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Chris Mathey wrote:
<snip>
> This BIOS can't boot off of _any_ USB drive. IDE, CD, or floppy are my
> choices. I'm hoping I can load the kernel off of hda (XP hard drive) or hdb
> (CD) then do the rest from sda (USB drive).

I recommend trying a specialized initrd in combination with an rdev
stanza in your lilo.conf. It might assuage your pain.

The Logan

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