Re: [CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:

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I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says:

VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root=

I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing.

Does your custom kernel (or its initrd) include the USB storage drivers necessary for reading your thumb drive?

Paul,

I started with the config from the old kernel but specifically which ones do I need to check and verify?

I don't have any Linux machines handy for getting an exact list, but the usb-storage module is certainly key. It depends, in turn, on the scsi_mod module.