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djseomun

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From: Durham, NC

Registered: 2008-10-19

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[SOLVED} Installation from USB Stick to USB External Hard Drive?

SYMPTOMS

I'm trying to install Overlord from a USB flash drive to an external USB HDD. There seem to be no problems with the installation, but when I reboot, I get the following:

Root device ... doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device

Googling, I found that a user has had the exact same problem I have had. In the sixth post, the user says that he tried installing Arch to an external hard drive and got the "Root device...doesn't exist" error.

Unfortunately, his problem was unresolved.

Does anyone have experience successfully installing Archlinux to an external USB hard drive? (The hard drive itself is SATA). Are there are any hooks that I need to add? Modules that I need to load? Something else?

SOLUTION

I asked a friend to help me install it. I believe the problem was with the GRUB menu.lst file.

Originally, the "root=..." pointed to the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ label for my root device. He changed that to /dev/sdb2. I don't recall editting any other file, so apparently, that was it. The weird thing is, I thought I did that, but I guess I either did not or I typed something incorrectly.

Anyway, my system is now up and running, and I'm very happy.

Last edited by djseomun (2008-10-27 04:05:42)