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? > > 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. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/