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Fedora Core 3 installed on a 27gig USB Drive Boot Problems
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| Whitewater 2005-02-06, 8:46 pm |
| Hello. I just finished installing Fedora 3 on a USB drive and I'm
having trouble booting it. My computer supports booting from a USB
device from the boot menu.
When I choose to boot from the USB drive, I get 'GRUB' up in the left
hand corner of the screen, but it just hangs there.
I found some instructions on getting it to boot properly from the USB
device, but they're not working for me. here's what the instructions
say:
Boot from Fedora Disk1 (in my case, the DVD) and type 'linux rescue'
and answer the questions bout language when they come up, when it asks
you if you want to search for the installation, click 'skip this step'
and you will be brought to a shell.
the directions say his setup is / on /dev/sda2 and /boot on /dev/sda1'
and that mine may differ.
CODE
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/source
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/source/boot
chroot /mnt/source
Next, create the initrd, with the usb driver included
CODE
mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage
--preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd.img 2.6.9-1.667smp
I am running that kernal number and have HT so I add smp
next, edit grub.conf
CODE
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf
put the new initrd file name initrd.img in place of what's there. save
and exit nano. reboot and it should work.
I can't get past the mounting of the usb device.
my PC configuration is
P4 3.06ghz
512 meg ram
200gb SATA-150 hard drive
NO FLOPPY
HP 16dvd-+rw drive
48x cdrom
I tried to identify the usb drive through the boot process after
typing 'linux rescue', but the text went by so fast, I couldn't read
it.
Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance
David
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| Whitewater 2005-02-07, 5:56 pm |
| Folow-up
I went back and played around and was able to mount the USB HD under
/dev/sdb The SATA drive was /dev/sda
I'm still having trouble booting. I choose 'boot from USB' from my
bios boot menu, GRUB appears in the upper left corner and just hangs
there.
If you need more info, let me know. If you have a link to helpful
resources on the net, also let me know.
Thanks in advance.
david
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:54:39 GMT, Whitewater
<whitewater_3@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hello. I just finished installing Fedora 3 on a USB drive and I'm
>having trouble booting it. My computer supports booting from a USB
>device from the boot menu.
>
>When I choose to boot from the USB drive, I get 'GRUB' up in the left
>hand corner of the screen, but it just hangs there.
>
>I found some instructions on getting it to boot properly from the USB
>device, but they're not working for me. here's what the instructions
>say:
>
>Boot from Fedora Disk1 (in my case, the DVD) and type 'linux rescue'
>and answer the questions bout language when they come up, when it asks
>you if you want to search for the installation, click 'skip this step'
>and you will be brought to a shell.
>
>the directions say his setup is / on /dev/sda2 and /boot on /dev/sda1'
>and that mine may differ.
>
>CODE
>
> mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/source
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/source/boot
> chroot /mnt/source
>
>Next, create the initrd, with the usb driver included
>
>CODE
> mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage
>--preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd.img 2.6.9-1.667smp
>
>I am running that kernal number and have HT so I add smp
>
>next, edit grub.conf
>
>CODE
> nano /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
>put the new initrd file name initrd.img in place of what's there. save
>and exit nano. reboot and it should work.
>
>I can't get past the mounting of the usb device.
>
>my PC configuration is
> P4 3.06ghz
> 512 meg ram
> 200gb SATA-150 hard drive
> NO FLOPPY
> HP 16dvd-+rw drive
> 48x cdrom
>
>I tried to identify the usb drive through the boot process after
>typing 'linux rescue', but the text went by so fast, I couldn't read
>it.
>
>Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance
>David
>
>
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