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Boot from USB hard drive

post #1 of 7
4/26/06 at 12:23am
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Does anyone know what needs to be done to boot from a usb hard drive?

I am trying to get SuSE 10.0 x64 installed on a usb hard disk. I can get through the installation fine but when I try to boot from the usb drive it does not find it and dumps me out at /bin/sh

I can boot from the install disk and if I choose the boot from hard disk option it still fails to find the disk. If I boot from the install disk and statrt the installation, and select the other/boot from hard disk option it finds the disk and boots fine.

I tried adding usb-storage to initrd and I see it load correctly but still fails to find the hard disk.
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post #2 of 7
4/26/06 at 2:18am
HP has a usb drive format tool that allows you to make the drive bootable.
http://selfdestruct.net/misc/usbboot/SP27213.exe
I think thats its. GL
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post #3 of 7
4/26/06 at 10:11am
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The drive is bootable. Grub works correctly. My problem is that the installation on the disk does not get usb "stuff" started and it times out looking for the primary drive
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post #4 of 7
4/26/06 at 8:01pm
Sounds like it needs the raid reconized. Search Google for how to install onto raid in Linux using live cd. GL
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post #5 of 7
4/26/06 at 8:11pm
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I am actually not using raid. The Promise 20378 controler is recognized and it does create the mount points for the NTFS partitions
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post #6 of 7
4/26/06 at 8:16pm
Maybe a SATA compatibility or driver issue. I hear about some problems from larger sata drives (>300g). GL
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post #7 of 7
4/27/06 at 10:22am
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I found the answer on LinuxQuestions.org. Add ehci-hcd ohci-hcd uhci-hcd usb-storage sd_mod to initrd, remake it....

Any way it is working.

Thanks all
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