boot from USB drive

I'm trying to make a Thinkpad T40 boot from a 300 GB USB drive. It has booted from other USB things (floppy or HD) without fuss. I can read and write the drive fine. In order of how good it is (best first), it goes:

1. lilo-grub on USB drive, kernel on USB drive tie 1. lilo-grub on internal IDE drive, kernel on USB drive 3. lilo-grub on internal IDE drive, kernel on IDE drive 4. kernel in XP, loaded through loadlin

I'm using kernel 2.6.15.1 and lilo (though I'm flexible). What I'm getting is "L 99 99 99" etc. whenever I try to boot from that drive. I have an entry in lilo.conf for the IDE drive which should make it restart lilo on the USB drive. For some reason, it raises the same menu it came from. Don't know why.

When I try #3, the kernel fails to mount its root filesystem. I searched on this, and apparently it takes longer for the USB timeout than the kernel waits, or something like that. There's a patch that makes it wait forever; I tried that, and it did indeed wait forever, never finding the filesystem. No good.

Anyhow, is what I'm trying to do impossible?

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		boot from USB drive I'm trying to make a Thinkpad T40 boot from a 300 GB USB drive. It has booted from other USB things (floppy or HD) without fuss. I can read and write the drive fine. In order of how good it is (best first), it goes: 1. lilo-grub on USB drive, kernel on USB drive tie 1. lilo-grub on internal IDE drive, kernel on USB drive 3. lilo-grub on internal IDE drive, kernel on IDE drive 4. kernel in XP, loaded through loadlin I'm using kernel 2.6.15.1 and lilo (though I'm flexible). What I'm getting is "L 99 99 99" etc. whenever I try to boot from that drive. I have an entry in lilo.conf for the IDE drive which should make it restart lilo on the USB drive. For some reason, it raises the same menu it came from. Don't know why. When I try #3, the kernel fails to mount its root filesystem. I searched on this, and apparently it takes longer for the USB timeout than the kernel waits, or something like that. There's a patch that makes it wait forever; I tried that, and it did indeed wait forever, never finding the filesystem. No good. Anyhow, is what I'm trying to do impossible? Here is some stuff that might be useful: Easy IRC clientserver for linux for kids, edubuntu, blah blah On Tuesday 07 February 2006 05:48, Ignoramus19736 stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: I happen to be running an IRC network with a few friends... -- Uses of The 4th Dimension New Discovery by The Human Race! 362 Uses of The 4th Dimension (New Discovery by The Human Race!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note Before: Everything you read on this page is The Truth. What does this mean? It means, if you try to do what... Q: What kind of modem did Jimi Hendrix use? A: A purple Hayes. List \| Previous \| Next



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