[Grml] booting from external disk
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Thu Mar 22 11:38:56 CET 2007
* August C. Quint <augustq at gmx.net> [20070321 16:15]:
[grml on external usb device]
> What I did: I downloaded the grml.iso-file via grml.gwendoline.at, burned a Cd
> and started the notebook: works, fine. I added my external hard-disk via USB
> ( I removed the internal hard-disk for safety, I want to keep the installed
> XP) and installed the software via grml2hd: works, fine.
Ok.
> For a test I stopped the machine, removed the CD and started it again. In the
> BIOS I've checked 'boot from USB-device' already and voila: it worked.
Ok.
> The next day I wanted to do this again: problems. So please allow me to
> describe my problems.
> problem #1: the inital screen comes up with the 3 choices. By doing nothing
> the choice 'grml' was started. Next was a scrren with the text: loading
> 2.6.18-grml, followed by approx. 180 dots (takes 10 minutes or so). What's
> this?
Loading of the kernel and initrd - takes a while on external devices
with lilo. Maybe using Grub instead is worth a try.
> At the end of this a message was displayed: BIOS data check succesfull (or
> something similar).
> Now we come to the booting-process. This works, a lot of lines are running on
> the screen. But we come to
> problem #2: a message appears:
> usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> This will be repeated multiple times, some other messages are appearing and
> these messages appear over and over again. One of the messages between is:
> SCSI-error, return-code = 0x00050000
> What's this?
Sorry no idea yet. Can you please provide me a screenshot of the
booting process where it hangs? (Please put the screenshot on a
webserver and don't send it directly to the mailinglist, either use
a public image service if you don't have webspace on your own or
please mail it to me off-the-list.)
Oh, and you might want to try to use root=UUID=... instead of
root=/dev/sd[a-z]... so you can make sure your system uses the
correct device for booting.
regards,
-mika-
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