[gobolinux-devel] Cant boot when installed to external USB drive

[RohanOne]

I've installed GoboLinux to an SSD housed in a SATA to USB enclosure.
This setup was detected by GoboLinux and I installed to the external
drive without issue. However, when I attempt to boot the drive, the
kernel keeps panicking. I've tried the drive using a direct SATA
connection to my laptop so I believe that the proper USB drivers aren't
being loaded into the kernel and thus, it cant find the root filesystem,
causing the kernel panics. Does anyone have a workaround? (like
parameter to add to the kernel line in the grub boot menu to load the
needed drivers?)

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

I've installed GoboLinux to an SSD housed in a SATA to USB enclosure. This
setup was detected by GoboLinux and I installed to the external drive
without issue. However, when I attempt to boot the drive, the kernel keeps
panicking. I've tried the drive using a direct SATA connection to my laptop
so I believe that the proper USB drivers aren't being loaded into the
kernel and thus, it cant find the root filesystem, causing the kernel
panics. Does anyone have a workaround? (like parameter to add to the kernel
line in the grub boot menu to load the needed drivers?)

I'm working on that one right now. We should have it fixed soon.

Lucas

[RohanOne]

Hey Lucas,

The Installer you sent me threw an error:

Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'Mount/GoboLinux//boot/grub/grub.cfg'

It seems an extra slash sneaked in somewhere between the GoboLinux and
the boot, but i cant find it in the file itself. I'd try fixing it but
I'm not sure i should be tinkering with software that can wipe out an OS
with the wrong command :\


RohanOne

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

Post by RohanOne
Hey Lucas,
Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Mount/GoboLinux//boot/grub/gr
ub.cfg'
It seems an extra slash sneaked in somewhere between the GoboLinux and the
boot, but i cant find it in the file itself. I'd try fixing it but I'm not
sure i should be tinkering with software that can wipe out an OS with the
wrong command :\

Just a heads-up: this has been fixed last night.

Regarding booting from an external hard disk, the issue is that the uas
(USB Attached SCSI) driver is compiled as a module. I will look into
building it in the main kernel image file.

Thanks,
Lucas