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Peter Chant
Guest	Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:41 pm    Post subject: Slackware 11.0 and usb caddy.   Following on from successfully booting to Slax from a usb stick I thought it would be useful to boot to slackware on an external USB hard drive. Using lilo on this disk has brought up a number of geometry issues. The boot floppy I created during install (sata.i) kernel panicks as it can't find the root parition to mount it. Any thoughts? From its behaviour it appears that sata.i has usb support biult in so I am puzzled to the lack of sucess with the floppy. Any thoughts? Anyone booted slack sucessfully from a USB external drive? The install cd appeared to work however. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
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Peter Chant
Guest	Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Slackware 11.0 and usb caddy.   Quote: Any thoughts? From its behaviour it appears that sata.i has usb support biult in so I am puzzled to the lack of sucess with the floppy. Any thoughts? Anyone booted slack sucessfully from a USB external drive? The install cd appeared to work however. Hmm, it appears it has not, though I suspect that that is not the only problem. Pete
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Joseph H. Rosevear
Guest	Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:47 am    Post subject: Re: Slackware 11.0 and usb caddy.   Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> wrote: Quote: Following on from successfully booting to Slax from a usb stick I thought it would be useful to boot to slackware on an external USB hard drive. Using lilo on this disk has brought up a number of geometry issues. The boot floppy I created during install (sata.i) kernel panicks as it can't find the root parition to mount it. A two-stage boot allows you to load the USB modules needed. See below. Quote: Any thoughts? From its behaviour it appears that sata.i has usb support biult in so I am puzzled to the lack of sucess with the floppy. OK, if USB support is really built in, then I'm puzzled too. Quote: Any thoughts? Anyone booted slack sucessfully from a USB external drive? The install cd appeared to work however. Pete [snip] Pete, There have been previous posts to this news group about booting a USB hard drive, but you've done some new things. I suggest that you search for previous posts on the subject. Maybe they'll help, or maybe not. You can also find some information on my web site http://josephrosevear.com/rs about how I made boot disks to boot USB devices using Slack 10.0. I can boot partitions that have slack installed to them whether they be on an installed hard drive, a USB hard drive, or a USB flash drive. I don't use lilo. I use a two-stage grub boot. Everything I need for the boot and the first stage goes on the CD. There are limitations, so the disk needs to be made to match your needs. Yes, it is a big hurdle to figure out how to make these boot disks, but once you are over the hurdle (or get some help), then it is (has been for me, anyway) a useful tool. I can use the same boot disk for booting various USB devices. I have recently extended my method a bit, so I need to update the information on my web site. And I have made a boot disk for Slack 10.2. -Joe
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