Re: [SLUG] ext3 on a USB drive

From: Chris Mathey (slug@mathey.org)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 11:27:48 EST


Eben King wrote:

>
> I'm going to try a different distribution, in hopes that its formatter
> works. Also, I tried to put LILO on /dev/hda so maybe I could boot that
> way, but installation failed with
>
> raid_init: stat(/dev/hda)
>
> Which I don't get, as /dev/hda exists within LILO's chroot, and isn't
> part of a RAID. LILO is version 22.7 ; on the latest System Rescue CD
> it's the same version. Anyone got a tutorial in GRUB?
>
Just an FYI, I have 3 different USB HDD cases and one of them I cannot
boot off of (USB boot is selected via BIOS on my DFI Lanparty).
Leads me to believe it's an incompatibility with my mobo\USB case.
However take that with a grain of salt as it was a quick test.

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