Booting from a USB Drive

[Steve Holmes]

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>.