Installing Gentoo On Usb Drive

Shadow428 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

I will soon have a new portable usb drive and i was wondering how exacly i can install gentoo on it. i have searched the forums but i cant find what i want. what changes do i need to make to the installation process and what do i need to do to have it boot from the drive (motherboard has usb boot support) Thanks

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

Shadow428,

There are no changes to the install process but mounting root from a USB drive needs some care.
You will need to make your own kernel - genkernel will not work
You must build in SCSI disk support, correct USB support and usb-storage support.

The last twist is that root is normally mounted before USB is initialised. You will need the parameter rootdelay=N on the kernel line in grub, when N is the number of seconds to delay before mounting root.

Seaching for rootdelay will probably turn something up, there have been a number of posts on installing and booting from USB drives.
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