Custom Kernel USB Boot Problem

[Christopher Brown]

2009/1/9 Ahmad Al-Yaman <ahmad221284 at yahoo.com>:
> Hi everyone, I'm building a custom kernel optimized for the Eee PC netbook. The kernel works without problems when installed on the main SSD but when I tried installing it on a USB flash disk, or SD card, and booted, I got the following error:
>
> Unable to access resume device (UUID=<UUID>)
> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or directory
>
> I'm assuming there are some packages necessary to boot from USB devices that need to be included in the kernel config which I didn't include. Can anyone give me an idea what those packages might be?

Isn't this problems with mkinitrd?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F10_bugs#Unbootable_new_installation_of_F10

There's not much point using journalled file systems on SSD btw - you
should use ext2 to save your drive some unnecessary writes. Turn off
swap too if you have it enabled.

Regards


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Christopher Brown