Thread: How to boot from USB HD?
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2008-08-23 , 05:23
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OK. So, I set the permissions after copying sda2 (chmod g-r initfs_flasher/initfs/dev/sda2) and I added a new section "usb2)" (which matches my current MENU_5_ID) to the special cases at the bottom of the bootmenu.sh file:
Code:
case "$default_root" in
        off)
		${T2S} -c
		poweroff
	;;
        usb2)
		sleep 5
	;;
esac
There is a noticeable pause after pressing the button on the HD menu choice, but it still fails to boot. Very frustrating.

Is there any kind of diagnostic message I can print on the screen to see exactly what part of the boot attempt is failing? The vague failure message, so typical of this device, is extremely unhelpful...

EDIT: Hmmm, I wonder if I put the special usb2 case at the very end... I think that's what fanoush meant... okay trying again...

EDIT2: Still no dice... interesting note, the HD shows no activity during the boot process, but after the boot failure, there is some activity as OS2008 mounts it.
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