[CentOS] usb thumbdrive

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Jun 6 20:09:26 UTC 2008


On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:

> 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?

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