Re: [edlug] lilo on an external USB drive

["Nick Woolley" <nickwoolley@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi,

USB storage devices are being presented as SCSI devices I think (hence the
/dev/sda device name in my previous post).

(see output below)

The lack of other disks in the machine I'd have thought would mean that lilo
would be loading its bootloader from the same place when booting from the
device as when lilo is installed.

I also tried a knoppix hard-drive install on a partition on the external USB
drive, with the same result - just an 'L' on boot.

No floppies handy, so I can't try to boot off a floppy. I'll have to
investigate this later, I think.


Thanks,

Nick

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I'm using bash here, so I've been lazy and used the tab key prompting to
list directories (and labelled it with [tab])

root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   11789568 sda
   8     1    3076888 sda1
   8     2          1 sda2
   8     5     204088 sda5
   8     6    2366248 sda6
   8     7    3069328 sda7
   8     8    3069328 sda8
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/ide/  [tab]
drivers  hdc      hdd      ide1     piix
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/ide/ide1/ [tab]
channel  config   hdc      hdd      mate     model
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/ide/drivers
ide-scsi version 0.93
ide-cdrom version 4.59-ac1
ide-disk version 1.17
ide-default version 0.9.newide
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/scsi/ [tab]
ide-scsi       scsi           usb-storage-0
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/scsi/ide-scsi/0
SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IDE-DVD  Model: ROM 16x          Rev: HD09
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SONY     Model: CD-RW  CRX215E5  Rev: 6.1G
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM-DARA Model: -212000          Rev: AR4O
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/2
   Host scsi2: usb-storage
       Vendor: DMI
      Product: USB 2.0 Storage Adaptor
Serial Number: 0B02011C04BE7C09
     Protocol: Transparent SCSI
    Transport: Bulk
         GUID: 0c0bb0010b02011c04be7c09
     Attached: Yes
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/bus/usb/ [tab]
001      002      003      devices  drivers
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0c0b ProdID=b001 Rev=11.10
S:  Manufacturer=DMI
S:  Product=USB 2.0 Storage Adaptor
S:  SerialNumber=0B02011C04BE7C09
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 2 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 98mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=32ms
T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers
         usbdevfs
         hub
  0- 15: usblp
         usb-storage

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