Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

[Hans Kaper]

Op Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:05 +0200 schreef Philipp Christian Loewner  
<bOrgph at web.de>:

> Hi,
> have you double-checked that the root= kernel parameter is set
> correctly in your menu.lst? So far, I only read about your fstab
> in this thread. Check again what suggestions the kernel makes for
> valid partition device nodes... Just in case you haven't tried
> yet.
>    - Philipp

Good suggestion. So once again I made an entry in Grub's menu.lst,  
carefully copying the disk/by-id-field from the SUSE-entry that boots  
allright from the usb-disk (and checked it with the udevinfo information),  
trying the partition-numbers 7,8 and 9, but to no avail. The  
kernel-suggestions for valid partition device nodes includes the  
partitions of the usb-disk, including number 8, which, I think, is the  
right number.

The menu.lst entry is:
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.27.4  
root=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SAMSUNG_HM160HI_160000113662-0:0-part8 rootdelay=9

Thanks for your idea.


Hans.

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