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Re: howto boot from harddrive



On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 15:51:27 -0500 (CDT)
kqt4at5v@gmail.com allegedly wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, mick wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:53:16 -0500 (CDT)
> > kqt4at5v@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
> >
> >> I just got a Guruplug server a couple of days ago. It booted right
> >> up as described and I connected and all worked fine. Then I
> >> installed Debian as decribed at
> >> 'http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html' to
> >> a USB flash drive. Also no problems everything works fine. Now I
> >> want to move the os to a USB harddrive.
> >
> > [ some deletia ]
> >
> > Martin notes on his site that USB support is a "little flakey". I
> > agree. I have had quite a few problems with my sheevaplug. Try
> > adding a reset to the bootcmd so that if it fails, it will retry
> > until success
> >
> > Thus:
> >
> > setenv bootcmd ‘setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run
> > bootcmd_usb; bootm 0×00800000 0×01100000; reset’
> >
> 
> Great, that got me past that, next hurdle
> 

I think your problem may be here:


> ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/b29e5aa2-0978-4acc-ac1b-0025cd403a80 does
> not exist.  Dropping to a shell!

If you moved from a USB flash drive to a SATA disk, then the disk UUID
will have changed. You need to update fstab to reflect that.

Mick

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