Re: OpenBrick NG, USB hard drive and Debian Sarge

Hi Jerome,

Yes. I also use the same mkinitrd configuration.

BUSYBOX=3Dno
DELAY=3D5

I think busybox has not kept up with the module loading in kernel
2.6.x. And delay is needed because of the USB subsystem needing
additional time to become stable.

I have tried both the stock kernels, 2.6.7-1-386 and 2.6.8-1-386,
without any problems. So, the standard Debian kernel configuration
should be fine.

However, I have found that there are few USB 2.0 devices out
there, specifically the Memory 256MB Thumb drive, are having
problems booting up from the NG, but not from other VIA CLE266-
based system.

Thanks.
Bao

On Fri, October 1, 2004 3:45 pm, Jerome BENOIT said:
> Hi Bao,
>
> finally I succeded too:
> I posted this emails a few days ago.
>
> It appears that when /etc/mkinitrd/mkinird.conf is configured with
>
> BUSYBOX=3D
>
> and
>
> DELAY=3D5
>
> it works well with (configured) 2.6.8 kernel.
>
> I did not try with the distributed kernel.
>
> By the way is there somewhere an apropriate kernel .config
> file ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome
>
> Bao C. Ha wrote:
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
>> Yes, I have tried it successfully with Debian Sarge. There may be
>> other problems. I build my own kernel because I want to use
>> the squashfs and mini_fo stuff. What are the errors you are
>> seeing?
>>
>> Bao
>>
>> On Mon, September 27, 2004 3:58 am, Jerome BENOIT said:
>>
>>>Hello List,
>>>
>>>since a while I have tried to run Sarge on my openbrick
>>>with an external USB hard drive.
>>>
>>>First, I installed an internal ide2 hard drive inside the box:
>>>everything was working well. Now I am trying to migrate
>>>to a USB external hard drive:
>>>right now the main issue is that the initrd stuff does not succeed to
>>>mount the root directory during the pivot_root stage.
>>>Any idea ?
>>>Any success story with Debian ?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>Jerome
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>


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