I've got several bootable usb installs of Centos, Fedora and Ubuntu. All work great now, I think i understand all the details about drive labeling, getting the initrd correct, and so forth. I was active in this list back in the Fedora 4 and 5 days, when these things were getting ironed out. Examples of the old posts (The COMPLETE guide to installing Linux Fedora Core 5 on your external HD, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-119764.html, On one of the external drives, I have esata port as well, and finally a new PC arrived that has an esata port built in. I've not tried this with Fedora 11 yet, but I have one running Centos-5.4, the external drive can boot from the USB connection, and while running, the esata drive is recognized and can be mounted easily. However, when I disconnect the USB and boot from the esata connection, the boot fails in a kernel panic because the /root drive cannot be found. I believe this is the exact same problem that afflicted efforts to boot from USB in the past, before we learned about adding the usb-storage modules into the mkinitrd command. Remember those days? Anyway, I wonder if anybody knows what modules are needed in the initrd in order to boot from an esata drive. Currently, for the USB boot, the modules needed are specified in /etc/modprobe.conf, they are: alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias scsi_hostadapter1 usb-storage If one of you knows the similar recipe for esata, I would very much appreciate it. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
