Custom Kernel USB Boot Problem

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Jan 10 06:44:13 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:32:25AM -0800, Ahmad Al-Yaman wrote:
 > Hi everyone, I'm building a custom kernel optimized for the Eee PC netbook. The kernel works without problems when installed on the main SSD but when I tried installing it on a USB flash disk, or SD card, and booted, I got the following error:
 > 
 > Unable to access resume device (UUID=<UUID>)
 > mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or directory
 > 
 > I'm assuming there are some packages necessary to boot from USB devices that need to be included in the kernel config which I didn't include. Can anyone give me an idea what those packages might be?

some random guesses..

mkinitrd probably doesn't support booting off of the mmc device.
or if it does, perhaps the mmc modules are missing from the initrd.

	Dave 


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