On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:23:39PM -0800, Ezequiel García wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very silly question. I was building a small hand made root > filesystem (with busybox and such) just to show how the process would be > done. > > Something pretty similar to free-electrons 'embedded linux from scratch' (http://free-electrons.com/docs/elfs/) but on a usb device (pen-drive). > So, I put me kernel, busybox and stuff and installed lilo onto the mbr. > > The problem is when the kernels boots it can't find the usb partition (sdc1) > to mount (i.e. the root device). > > I know the usual way to do this is using initrd or similar, > but I don't want to get that into the equation since the > whole project is just for educational purposes and > I want to keep things as simple as possible. Then just pass the command line option to sleep for a while before looking for the root device. I do that just fine on my tiny dns server that runs from a USB flash drive. Look in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for the rootdelay= option for more details as to what to do. Hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
