On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel > >>binary images is documented, other than looking thru the config files > >>or the descriptions of the packages. > >> > >>When I install Etch on my machine from the daily built, it pulls in > >>-486. > >> > >>With that and grub I can boot into a USB disk. > >> > >>But when I install linux-image-2.6-k7 (my processor) the boot will > >>fail, because he cannot find the root device, meaning the initrd > >>failed somehow. > >> > > The issue is the use of an USB harddrive. yes, this is more than trivial at this point, I think. > > Linux-image-4-486 has no problems when used on a USB disk partition on > which Etch is installed with the daily-built d-i. I always boots right. > > However... > > When I install the same linux-image-4-486 on an older partition that now > runs 2.6.20-ck1 and only refers to the USB disk from /etc/fstab, the > boot will fail 50% of the time because he just doesn't wait long enough > for the device to show up and changing mkinitrd.conf with DELAY=10 and > running update-initramfs -u did not change anything. > > Also when I use yaird instead there is never any problem exept for the > poor behavior of yaird: see > http://wiki.debian.org/USB-HD_Boot_Full_Debian?highlight=%28USB%29 > and: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01557.html > I'm sorry I'm very confused as to what exactly you are trying to do here. Are you using /boot from the hard-disk and then using / on USB or what? A
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