Thread: How to boot from USB HD?
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2008-08-23 , 04:41
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Either copy the one from the root filesystem (and maybe chmod to match the others in the initfs?) or use mknod.
As you can see from the post above, this is what I did; I connected the drive and then copied the /dev/sda2 ... I will check the permissions in /mnt/initfs/dev/... hm, slightly different! sda1 (like all of the other partitions) is brw------- and sda2 is brw-r-----. Would that make a difference?

Also, the major and minor numbers of sda, sda1 and sda2 look correct;
sda: 8, 0
sda1: 8, 1
sda2: 8, 2

I would love some guidance on fanoush's second idea...

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
2 can be solved by hacking end of bootmenu.sh, there is case for special ids so you may need to add similar one to the end after line that sets usb mode to host. Simple sleep should be enough.
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