From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Stevens <jsteve17@yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: USB root filesytem using a 2.6 kernel?
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:34:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9305ca4105091307345aa64870@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050913121748.66647.qmail@web33013.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On 9/13/05, Jeff Stevens <jsteve17@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck booting from a linux filesytem
> on a USB pen drive running 2.6?
It's a timing issue - your USB stick doesn't get detected / scanned
for partitions before the kernel tries to mount the rootfs. Use the
rootdelay kernel parameter to force a delay (of E.G. 10s) to fix it.
You might need to upgrade your kernel through, I think it was added in 2.6.=
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2005-09-13 12:17 USB root filesytem using a 2.6 kernel? Jeff Stevens
2005-09-13 14:34 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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