jperez
September 25th, 2009, 11:35 PM
Hi all,
I haven't posted here in a while, but everything, for the most part, has been working out on my end with (K)ubuntu...except the graphics...
Anyway, my girlfriend wants to use Linux on an external USB hard drive, but we've tried everything so far and nothing has worked. The drive is just a simple laptop IDE drive in an enclosure and the laptop she's connecting it to can boot USB devices. Now, the thing we want to do is install Ubuntu onto the drive and get it to boot because she got it to install on the drive, but now it's not booting.
I'm thinking maybe the drive needs to be formatted to have a Linux boot partition on it, but I don't really know. Any help would be appreciated. If you need anymore info to help out, please ask and I'll post more.
EDIT:
This is the error she got. Props to her for typing everything on the screen she saw verbatim:
Boot from (hd0,4) ext3 10081609-62c8-4ace-84f2-7ba124b0aa78
Starting up ...
[ 0.348001] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
Loading, please wait...
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid.10081609-62c8-4ace-84f2-7ba124b0aa78 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-2ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
Jesse~
I haven't posted here in a while, but everything, for the most part, has been working out on my end with (K)ubuntu...except the graphics...
Anyway, my girlfriend wants to use Linux on an external USB hard drive, but we've tried everything so far and nothing has worked. The drive is just a simple laptop IDE drive in an enclosure and the laptop she's connecting it to can boot USB devices. Now, the thing we want to do is install Ubuntu onto the drive and get it to boot because she got it to install on the drive, but now it's not booting.
I'm thinking maybe the drive needs to be formatted to have a Linux boot partition on it, but I don't really know. Any help would be appreciated. If you need anymore info to help out, please ask and I'll post more.
EDIT:
This is the error she got. Props to her for typing everything on the screen she saw verbatim:
Boot from (hd0,4) ext3 10081609-62c8-4ace-84f2-7ba124b0aa78
Starting up ...
[ 0.348001] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/modules.dep: No such file or directory
Loading, please wait...
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid.10081609-62c8-4ace-84f2-7ba124b0aa78 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-2ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
Jesse~