* Sean Kennedy sean.worker@gmail.com [20060509 04:15]:
I've installed grml on a usb hard drive, and had success (except for it spending a lot - 10 minutes at least - of time "Loading kernel 2.6.16" if I remember the message properly).
Yes, loading kernel usually takes some time when booting from USB drive. But 10 minutes is definitely to long. :)
But after I did: apt-get update apt-get upgrade (which had some problems so I did apt-get -f install)
I get a kernel panic during start up, it tells me to set the proper root when I start, or something like that.
I suppose the first thing is how to resolve the kernel panic (I'm pretty sure that without doing a dist-upgrade my kernel shouldn't have been touched).
Hm, strange. Did you modify something with your bootloader setup? Please provide the relevant parts of your /etc/lilo.conf of the usb drive.
What you could try anyway is booting your system from CD and reinstall lilo on the USB drive. Does this fix your problem?
Please try to provide the exact error message you get. This would help debugging a lot.(We need to know at least which root-device is supposed to be used on your setup).
If I can get that resolved, I'd like to know why my computer can boot faster from the CD than from the hard drive (it is a USB2 connection).
Loading kernel takes longer, that's normal. Afterwards it should boot at least as fast a booting from CD. Seems like your chipset isn't supported that well by the Linux kernel. Which usb drive (chipset) are you using? What transfer rate do you usually have using Linux? (Benchmark it for example with bonnie++)
regards, -mika-