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#1 2008-10-20 18:35:18

puterboy
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Registered: 2008-09-18
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Can ffp-reloaded be made to work with usb-drive as root?

The advantage here are multifold:
1. The hard-drives can still shut down
2. Changing/editing a kernel and root setup is as easy as swapping a flash drive
3. Hard drive mounting positions can still be maintained /mnt/HD_a2 (relative to root) without links or extra binds

But is this possible?

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#2 2008-10-20 20:16:04

fonz
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Re: Can ffp-reloaded be made to work with usb-drive as root?

Didn't try, but sth like 'root=/dev/sdc1' might do the trick.

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#3 2008-10-23 07:58:47

puterboy
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Re: Can ffp-reloaded be made to work with usb-drive as root?

Doesn't seem to work for me.
Can someone else try to verify whether this works or not? (I want to make sure that it is not due to some stupid mistake that I'm doing)

Wonder whether timing can be issue in that could it take too long for the usb bus to come up?

Also, note that the kernel I am using has usb built-in so that shouldn't be an issue.

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#4 2008-10-23 10:43:26

puterboy
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Re: Can ffp-reloaded be made to work with usb-drive as root?

I notice that the "led" on my usb stick does not light up when I do ffp-reloaded pointing to /dev/sdc5 (the location of my usb linux partition). So it seems like it  never gets to mounting/scanning the usb bus.

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#5 2008-10-23 16:06:18

puterboy
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Re: Can ffp-reloaded be made to work with usb-drive as root?

PROBLEM SOLVED:

I added the 'rootdelay' parameter to the command line to give the usb bus time to scan and stabilize.

The key line in boot.sh is now (for me):
./reload.sh -I root=/dev/sdc5 rootdelay=10

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