On 2006.01.15 19:34, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
How do you get around the fstab pointing to the wrong device node, surely the USB mass storage is going to be sda but your fstab is going to be hda etc....or will the kernel boot up still in init 1 or something so that you can manually mount the partitions...you've got me interested now I might have to try this.
The only thing I could think of was to set up another fstab with a different name and before I connect the disc to the Thinkpad I change them over.
Not very elegant but I hope it works.
The other thing that bothered me a little was the boot=/dev/hda in lilo.conf. I've set up a root=/dev/sda14 in the image section and the laptop does boot from the external drive so I'll wait and see what happens tomorrow when I try it.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain