Hi,
I'm trying to get a small embedded filesystem running from a pendrive. I have it booting the kernel, but it always fails when It goes to mount the root filesystem.
It always complains about "block-device-8".
Anyone got any thoughts? Thanks
Iain
Linux on a USB pendrive
Dec 13, 2003
3 Replies
Only thoughts. Probably not much in the way of help.
This sounds familiar. Are you using LILO? Did you run it on a system other than your target? Are you aware of "disk="?
--kyler
Devil linux has scrpts to create a Pen Drive distribution. Try having a look and see if you can use it as a base?
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There are a bunch of issues here, but one thing that needs to be pointed out: After loading your USB module and the usb-storage module, you should pause for three or four seconds, because it takes a finite time for the device to be mountable.
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