Booting from USB external hard disk

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 23:05, Daniel Stonier wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:30:51 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:23, Daniel Stonier wrote:
> 
> 
> >> >> Been googling and experimenting a bit without luck.
> >> >>
> >> >> Has anybody managed or heard of someone getting a usb external hard
> >> >> drive installed and booting successfully with Fedora?
> >> >
> >> > Found this, but didn't work for me. Perhaps for you it does.
> >> >
> >> > http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm
> >>
> >> Found it also. Alot of it made sense, but unfortunately didn't work for  
> >> me either. I didn't have his exact setup though (didn't remove the  
> >> drives)and couldn't get  around the problems with it.
> >
> > I managed to make it work the 2nd time around.. Heck, even got suse9.1  
> > to boot from it.
> >
> > BUt this is after I loaned a friends' casing. My original sarotech cutie  
> > casing didn't work. it was always giving me errors. (errors which I  
> > didn'tsee whenever I  plug in my drive in rh9 with 2.6.3 kernel.
> 
> Got it going with Suse 9.1 - it all came down to missing kernel modules  
> for the
> usb stuff in the initrd image. Will try it with FC2 later. Ben's  
> instructions are for the
> most part pretty good, although I needed to add the usbcore module as well  
> (usb-storage
> and ehci-hcd depended on it). Also had to make sure my grub was installed  
> on the MBR
> of /dev/sda rather than on the first boot partition.
> 
> Thanks for the note - it kept me going when I may have given up!
> 

Here's another one.. And Yes.. I've saved my initrd images for future
use.

http://simonf.com/usb/

-- 
Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive 
Neuromancer 17:08:47 up 5:05, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.61, 0.47