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gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

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Installing on an external USB drive

I am running Ubuntu on one of my internal HDDs and Slitaz 4 on another and I am using Ubuntu grub to boot into either of the systems.

I would like to install Slitaz on an external USB drive for trying out various flavours without having to change the bootloader. I can install Slitaz flavours on my external HDD ok and get Ubuntu bootloader to point to it but cannot boot from the external drive.

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here? Thanks

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Installing on an external USB drive

I installed LinuxMint on the same external USB drive and I am able to boot without any problems.

I get kernel panic message with Slitaz 4.0 when trying to boot from this external USB drive. The message is

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS. Unable to mount root fs on unknown -block (0,0).

Would appreciate if anyone can give me some pointers to resolve this. Thanks

PS: no issues whatsoever with booting from Slitaz 4.0 installation on an internal drive.

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Installing on an external USB drive

OK, finally success....

For the benefit of anyone else trying to do what I am doing, the solution was simply to use 'rootdelay=8' in the grub command line as per mojo's suggestion in http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/40-rc1-crashing-on-boot-up-with-kernel-panic-help#post-6667

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Installing on an external USB drive

For anyone wanting to make an external USB drive bootable here is a good reference...

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4536/how-create-external-usb-bootable-linux-hard-drive-without-dual-boot