[syslinux] Isolinux booting to /root on USB Drive

[Gustavo Guillermo Pérez]

El Sábado, 26 de Agosto de 2006 03:47, David Xiao escribió:
> I'm having trouble configuring syslinux/isolinux to get it to see the root
> partition on an external USB drive. The system doesn't enable direct boot
> from a USB drive, so I'm trying to configure a bootable CDROM that will
> boot up and use the USB drive where the OS is.  Any suggestions as how to
> make this work. I've tried using Suse 9.1 and I can get isolinux to load
> the USB drivers (at least it says so), but then when I try to get to the
> /root partition, it can't find it.   I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install
> disk and then finish booting up from the USB drive, so I know there is some
> way to make this work.  I'm trying to reduce the effort required to boot
> from the external drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Do you resolve this problem? I am trying to resolve it.
>
> And you said “I can boot from the Suse 9.1 install disk and then finish
> booting up from the USB
>
> drive, so I know there is some way to make this work.  “
>
> How do you do this successfully? Can you tell me?
>
[Off Topic]
I don't know who you want to talk to, but you wrote to the list instead...
I do some tricks on our Gentoo Live-DVD ware, with a small CD-CARD about 35MB, 
I'm actually using it on a small preety laptop-hdd usb case if you are 
curious, disasmeble the initrd file on the small USB-HDD boot image, and as 
you can see, we load every driver related to SATA, and USB storage devices, 
and then perform a search for a file on every available root device, if found 
what we looking for, we have two choices, as we got support for our storage 
device we can change our real root device and exit from our initscripts, or 
mount our loopback file or real partition and link some files to execute 
init.

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Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
Compunauta uLinux
www.compunauta.com