F8 installation in external usb disk (not USB key)

[Miguel Blanco]

Well, all seems to progress as it should ! After updating the BIOS
the Inspiron 9400 works as expected. No more errors with the usb disk!

Thanks again to all of you in special Mikkel an John!

Regards,
Miguel.

2008/1/4, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
> Miguel Blanco wrote:
> >> This is strange. Do you remember the exact commands you had to give
> >> Grub to get it to boot on the 9400? Because it sounds like the USB
> >> drive is not being mapped as hd0 when booting from the USB drive on
> >> that machine. That would be a strange BIOS problem...
> >
> > Well, I wrote down in paper some of the differences with the John's document
> > and the relevant part was:
> >
> > grub> cat (hd0,2)/boot/grub/tester
> > (and it worked)
> > grub> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
> > grub> initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd_usb.gz
> > grub> boot
> > (and booted ok)
> >
> > and the current grub configuration, which seems to work (allways) on the D620 is
> >
> > timeout=10
> >
> > title Fedora8initial
> >       kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
> >       initrd   (hd0,2)/boot/initrd_usb.gz
> >
> > title Fedora8-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
> >       kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.63.9-85.fc8
> >       initrd   (hd0,2)/boot/initrd-2.6.23.9-85.img
> >
> > The partions in the usb disk are:
> > sda1 - NTFS
> > sda2 - swap
> > sda3 - Linux
> >
> > Regards,
> > Miguel.
> >
> That is about what I would expect on the USB drive. I am just
> surprised that it does not work on the 9400 when you boot from the
> USB drive. I would not expect it to work if you boot from a CD or
> the internal hard drive and chain to the USB drive without Grub
> doing some remapping first.
>
> Mikkel
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