Booting root filesystem from usb device

Ezequiel García elezegarcia at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Dec 1 09:53:26 EST 2011



--- El mié 30-nov-11, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> escribió:

> 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.
> 
It worked like a charm. Looking at kernel-parameters.txt, I also 
came across rootwait option. 

If someone reads this and is trying 
something similar (using lilo) you may find this useful:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1105.2/03866.html

Thanks,
Ezequiel.



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