External Hard Drive with Ubuntu 5.1

[Ian Kabeary]

Could you tell me how to load a driver from a command line?
Thanks a million!
~Ian

On 6/4/06, Alex Janssen <alex at ourwoods.org> wrote:
>
>  Ian Kabeary said the following on 06/03/2006 08:40 PM:
>
> Thanks for the reply, but I have gotten past that step.
> As I said in the 2nd email I sent in, it says that it is unable to mount
> the root partition. On IRC, the little help I did recieve suggested
> something
> about USB services loading later on. I have no idea what that means. :)
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks so much!
> ~Ian
>
> On 6/3/06, Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Ian Kabeary" <omega21 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > > I was wanting to play around with Ubuntu, without removing Gentoo or
> > > Windows. I put it onto my external USB hard drive,
> > > and installed grub to /dev/sda. Im not sure if my laptop (Toshiba
> > Satellite
> > > A70) supports booting from USB, so I was wondering
> > > if I could add something to my grub.conf file for the installation
> > grub has
> > > on my MBR so that it would boot my external USB?
> >
> > Learn to run the grub boot loader from its command line.  That is,
> > when it presents it's menu, you switch into command mode, and request
> > help.  You have to learn how it designates disks, partitions, etc.
> > It's handy, because you can, say, set the "root" disk, and then type
> > "file " followed by a "/" and then hit the tab key, and it will show
> > you all the files in the root directory of the root disk you set.  And
> > hitting "tab" whild setting the root disk will show you all of the
> > disks that you can set (ie, that grub can boot from).
> >
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>
> --
> Cheers,
> Ian
>
> The drivers for USB devices are not loaded at that point in the boot
> process so there is no connection to the USB drive.  Maybe you could load a
> driver from the grub command line.
> Good luck,
> Alex
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Cheers,
Ian
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