Guest Billy Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Hi to all, First, I apologize for my bad english, but I hope you understand I try to install on my laptop dell d600 linux, but i can't touch internal hd, because is for work, then I buy an external USB hd. During installation no problem, I see hd , and I can made a partition on external hd, I installed lilo on USB hd and lilo start on the boot (Laptop support boot form USB ) . But during start up the system crash !!!! Why?? I tried to install with expert option, the system ask me if I would install third part hardware, but I don't know ....... During installation is all ok..... MANY Bye Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Baco Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Could you give more information about the "system crash", any message showing up on your screen ? Which version of Mandrake have you installed ? After the LILO menu, does it show a progress bar ? Have you tried to hit ESC to get full boot messages instead ? Write down any message you can get. It will help to find why you have this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billy Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Thanks Pierre for your support, The version of Linux is Mandrake 9.2 ( see subject of this post!! ;-) ). now I'm at work , this evening I take a picture of the screen for many information... After the LILO menu I see progress bar for 2-3 second..... The system can't see the external hd and can't mount sda partition...many details tomorrow ok?? Have you tried to hit ESC to get full boot messages instead ? Yes but don't work!! I searched on internet and I found this: "This almost works, except for two problems: Because of the fact that SBP support uses SCSI emulation, the emulated SCSI bus need to be "rescanned" in order to detect the disk and allow /dev/sda1 to be mounted. This scanning is performed with a couple of simple commands. Unfortunately, however, using a one-phase boot, we cannot run any commands until the kernel has finished booting, and the kernel cannot finish booting until the root file system is mounted -- a classic Catch-22 situation. Thankfully, there is a patch available for 2.4 kernels that causes the SCSI bus to be scanned on startup (see Resources for more details). By applying this patch, I was able to have the external drive automatically detected by the kernel during bootup with no rescanning commands required. This leads us to the next problem. There is a timing window within the kernel, which means that often, the kernel will proceed to try to mount the root device before it has had a chance to be properly detected or initialized. Again, there is a patch available for this (please see Resources for a link) that simply makes the kernel wait for a short period of time on startup, and retry if it fails to mount the root filesystem (to give the external drive time to be recognized). " At the page http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linu...-lnxw09FireBoot What you think about this??? Thanks and please me!!!!!! Bye Billy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billy Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Hi to all, Please me!!! The message is : All ok ..... up to Mounting /proc filesystem creating root device Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime mount : error 6 on ext3 flags ( 3 times ) pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot / initrd) filed: 2 Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary mount devfs on /dev KERNEL PANIC: NO INIT FOUND TRY PASSING INIT=OPTION TO KERNEL and now????? I don't understand !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Read this thread re problems booting from a usb hard drive: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...nal+hard+drivea and this link from ibm on the solution: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linu...lnxw02aFireBoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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