booting from usb drive

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:25:44PM +0100, oliver oli wrote:

> i installed ubuntu on an usb hard disk, but i don't what i have to do 
> that the kernel can mount the root partition.
> 
> the usb drive is detected by the laptop, it boots GRUB and GRUB loads 
> the kernel, but then i get a kernel panic.
> 
> i booted Fedora 2 successfuly from this hard disc. there i had to modify 
> the initrd.img (howto at http://www.simonf.com/usb/). ubuntus initrd.img 
> looks completly different, so i have no idea where to start.

Start with the documentation for the mkinitrd command.  When you get it
working, please document it on the wiki for the benefit of others.

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 - mdz