Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262890AbVAQU4o (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:56:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262891AbVAQU4o (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:56:44 -0500 Received: from dialin-160-45.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.160.45]:13696 "EHLO node1.opengeometry.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262890AbVAQU4f (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:56:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:55:19 -0500 From: William Park To: Paulo Marques Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Thomas Zehetbauer , lkml Subject: Re: usb-storage on SMP? Message-ID: <20050117205519.GA2277@node1.opengeometry.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paulo Marques , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Thomas Zehetbauer , lkml References: <1105982247.21895.26.camel@hostmaster.org> <200501171826.33496.rjw@sisk.pl> <20050117194615.GA2028@node1.opengeometry.net> <41EC1993.2030105@grupopie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41EC1993.2030105@grupopie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2278 Lines: 54 On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:01:23PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote: > William Park wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > >>On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>can anyone confirm that writing to usb-storage devices is working > >>>on SMP systems? > >> > >>Generally, it is. Recently, I've written some stuff to a USB > >>pendrive (using 2.6.10-ac7 or -ac9). > > > > > >Same here with Abit VP6 dual-P3 and 2.6.10. It shows up as /dev/sda, > >and I can do anything that I would do with normal harddisk. > > > >But, I still can't boot from it. :/ I can now mount it as root > >filesystem, but I can't load the kernel from USB key drive. > > huh?? Who's mounting the root filesystem, then :) ? > > If you mean that you can't get the BIOS to load the kernel for you, and > you're loading the kernel from a floppy or something, you should know > that some BIOS are pretty selective about what they consider a valid > boot partition. Hee, hee... yes, for now I boot from floppy first, then mount /dev/sda1 as root filesystem. I, of course, want to get rid of the floppy. My motherboard is Mercury PVCLE266M-L with VIA C3 Samuel 2 cpu integrated on the board. It has tons of boot device options, and detects my USB key (SanDisk Cruzer Mini 256MB) as "USB RMD-FDD" and not as some kind of harddisk. I think that's the problem: motherboard thinks it's floppy, and LILO thinks it's SCSI harddisk (/dev/sda). > > I recommend that you use fdisk to set up one partition as FAT16 type > (even if you use another filesystem later), and make the partition > active. You might need to write a proper MBR on the pen also (IIRC > LILO as an option to do this). > > You might also need to pass a special "disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80" (or > something like that) option in your lilo.conf file, but that depends > how far in the boot process you're hanging. -- William Park , Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/