Re: Can not boot from USB storage device

[Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:45:57AM -0500, Zhong Li wrote:
> > 
> > My guess is that the USB drivers might be slow to respond to setting
> > it up as a SCSI drive by the time it hits the 'mount root and go'
> > point?  I'm not sure if anyone here has tried this or not.  Anyhow,
> > any suggestions or requests for info would be appreciated.
> > 
> Try to add the following in your boot command,
> 
> root=/dev/sdb1  rootdelay=10

If you use devlabel or LVM, then all you should need is to add the
rootdelay parameter.  You should almost certainly be specifying the root
device in terms of a devlabel or LVM, as sdb is not guaranteed to be your
USB device.

Matt

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