Booting from a USB Drive

[Steve Holmes]

In Arch linux, that conf file is found in /etc so /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
should do it.  I just inserted usb in the list of hook entries just
following the autodetect item.  You should probably run mkinitcpio but
I didn't know the exact parameters I might need so what I did as a
lazy Arch Linux user  was to simply re-install the kernel26 package;
that automatically regenerates the RAM disk image for us.  Then I
rebooted and the damn thing worked! <smile>

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:47:21AM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Fantastic!  And where did you find this mkinitcpio.conf? Was that in Arch
> Linux?  Did you look in any others (sounds like not yet)?  And what did you
> have to do after adding the usb entry (like remaster an iso, or ...)?
> 
> Larry
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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