Booting linux on USB-sticks.

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 08:50:51 pm Lonni J Friedman wrote:

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> How exactly is it failing?  Where did you get this kernel that you're
> using?

I compile my own, that's where it came from. Before you beat me... this same 
exact kernel and it's associate .config boot perfectly ok off my laptops hard 
drive. Moving the exact same setup to the usb stick and boot it via grub, 
fails unless I use the initrd method. 

What is it about usb sticks that require the use of initrd/initfs to boot 
linux? That's what I haven't figured out. Booting into a kernel in /boot 
fails just as the kernel access the file system for the first time... unable 
to mount VFS... However the same exact kernel/modules stuffed into an inird 
works perfectly...

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