by Socaltom » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:48 pm
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ejblom', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Socaltom', 'T')he cleanest fix I've found is to have you boot drive connected to the sata port. IF it finds a drive there it will use it to boot and you are off and running. It requires some modifications to the case, and an eSATA housing, but no other changes to the install procedure ( this is different than totally booting from sata that requires special formating of the drive).
If you boot from the sata port, you can boot with USB drives in as many ports as you want.
Tom
This also sounds doable, although I would first like to exhaust all possible USB options. Isn't it possible to install some kind of busybox based Linux system om sda1 (the external hd) that has an only purpose of waiting, mounting sdb1, and use switch_root to change the rootfs and subsequently continue the boot process... has this option been used before?
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In addition, would it be possible when setting this parameters:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'root=/dev/sda1 ubi.mtd=2,512 rootfstype=ext3 console=ttyS0,115200 elevator=cfq mac_adr=0x00,0x30,0xe0,0x00,0x00,0x01 mem=128M poweroutage=yes rootdelay=15')
to substitute the /dev/sda1 by an UUID id?
If it were that easy, I'm pretty sure the solution would have been posted long ago. If you search the forum you will find many folks with the same issue.