Fedora Core 3 installed on a 27gig USB Drive Boot Problems

From: Whitewater (whitewater_3_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/07/05

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    Hello. I just finished installing Fedora 3 on a USB drive and I'm
    having trouble booting it. My computer supports booting from a USB
    device from the boot menu.

    When I choose to boot from the USB drive, I get 'GRUB' up in the left
    hand corner of the screen, but it just hangs there.

    I found some instructions on getting it to boot properly from the USB
    device, but they're not working for me. here's what the instructions
    say:

    Boot from Fedora Disk1 (in my case, the DVD) and type 'linux rescue'
    and answer the questions bout language when they come up, when it asks
    you if you want to search for the installation, click 'skip this step'
    and you will be brought to a shell.

    the directions say his setup is / on /dev/sda2 and /boot on /dev/sda1'
    and that mine may differ.

    CODE

            mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/source
            mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/source/boot
            chroot /mnt/source

    Next, create the initrd, with the usb driver included
            
    CODE
            mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage
    --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/initrd.img 2.6.9-1.667smp

    I am running that kernal number and have HT so I add smp

    next, edit grub.conf

    CODE
            nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

    put the new initrd file name initrd.img in place of what's there. save
    and exit nano. reboot and it should work.

    I can't get past the mounting of the usb device.

    my PC configuration is
            P4 3.06ghz
            512 meg ram
            200gb SATA-150 hard drive
            NO FLOPPY
            HP 16dvd-+rw drive
            48x cdrom

    I tried to identify the usb drive through the boot process after
    typing 'linux rescue', but the text went by so fast, I couldn't read
    it.

    Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance
    David

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