Subject: Re: USB root filesytem using a 2.6 kernel?

From: Peter Korsgaard <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:34:20 +0200

On 9/13/05, Jeff Stevens <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck booting from a linux filesytem
> on a USB pen drive running 2.6?

It's a timing issue - your USB stick doesn't get detected / scanned
for partitions before the kernel tries to mount the rootfs. Use the
rootdelay kernel parameter to force a delay (of E.G. 10s) to fix it.

You might need to upgrade your kernel through, I think it was added in 2.6.=
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard