mikekgr
10-13-2003, 07:55 AM
Dear Friends,
These days I am trying to do the following:
I have an external USB Hard disk and this is connected to a PC that doesn’t support Booting from USB.
I installed Knoppix on this USB Hard disk (using Knoppix-install) and everything went perfect. So far so good BUT I have not found any way how to boot this Knoppix-Linux Installation.
I tried to use boot disk, Grub, LILO… but without success because at the booting time the USB device (My external USB Drive) is not possible to mounted as root nor to fetch the kernel from there. (This can only happened after loading kernel with the help of the related modules…). Also the standard Knoppix-Linux kernel doesn’t have USB support at the kernel only compiled as module. So it is not possible let’s say to copy the lilo and the kernel to a boot floppy Disk and to instruct lilo to boot kernel from floppy disk and root file system from USB (that should be sda?).
So I don’t know what I do in order to achieve Knoppix-Lilo booting from USB Drive.
Is there any way to do that? Is there any of yours that can help me???
Please keep in mind that I am very new in Linux so please try to explain me thinks in a very step-by-step way.
Thanks for your time.
Best Regards
Mike Kranidis
These days I am trying to do the following:
I have an external USB Hard disk and this is connected to a PC that doesn’t support Booting from USB.
I installed Knoppix on this USB Hard disk (using Knoppix-install) and everything went perfect. So far so good BUT I have not found any way how to boot this Knoppix-Linux Installation.
I tried to use boot disk, Grub, LILO… but without success because at the booting time the USB device (My external USB Drive) is not possible to mounted as root nor to fetch the kernel from there. (This can only happened after loading kernel with the help of the related modules…). Also the standard Knoppix-Linux kernel doesn’t have USB support at the kernel only compiled as module. So it is not possible let’s say to copy the lilo and the kernel to a boot floppy Disk and to instruct lilo to boot kernel from floppy disk and root file system from USB (that should be sda?).
So I don’t know what I do in order to achieve Knoppix-Lilo booting from USB Drive.
Is there any way to do that? Is there any of yours that can help me???
Please keep in mind that I am very new in Linux so please try to explain me thinks in a very step-by-step way.
Thanks for your time.
Best Regards
Mike Kranidis