Re: Booting from a USB Drive

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Author: Steve Holmes
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Booting from a USB Drive
GOOD NEWS!!!

I got it working. I can now boot on this external drive without
having to jump start from a live cd and chroot or any of that.

It seems that my mkinitcpio.conf did not include 'usb' as one of the
hooks for building the initial RAMFS image. I figured the RAMFS was
failing some how since the usb drive hadn't been formerly listed in
the startup sequence. So I added usb to the list of hooks and she's
working now. I don't know a whole lot about the insides of mkinitcpio
or if this configuration is common accross most distros but I got mine
working and I guess that's what really matters.

Thanks to all of you for your helpful answers and ideas.

Now off to fix my wireless challenge <smile>.
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