On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 06:18:14AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Zoran Kolic wrote: > >>Is your BIOS able to boot from a portable USB driveand is the portable > >>USB drive bootable? > > > >Bios is ami and sees devices as I connect them to the interface. The other > >part of question: in this moment I have only enclosure. Tomorrow gonna > >buy 2.5 hdd. It _must_ be bootable. > >Theoretically, there should not be any reason not to successed to install > >on usb disk and not to write _any_ data on internal hdd. It is a proof of > >concept not to disconnect internal drive. > >Should I post additional info? > > > I am having trouble using my USB disk with mkinitrd.yaird, because you > cannot generate the image on a different system than the one you would > boot from. At least I don't know how. chroot into the system and run mkinitrd.yaird within the chroot. YOu can also manually edit bits of the yaird config files to make it point to the right devices for booting. A
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