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Re: [ts-7000] Want to boot 7260 from USB drive

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Want to boot 7260 from USB drive
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:51:49 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Peter Santangeli wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> After my SD card finally gave out, I'm switching to booting my 7260
> from a USB drive.

wouldn't it be easier to get a new SD card?

> Is there an appropriate image available somewhere for me to do this?
> What do I need to do to boot strap this?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>

The problem is Redboot cannot load a kernel direct from USB. The
distributed kenrel uses modules so a loaded kernel cannot speak to USB
until it's loaded the usb modules - from the USB ????? you see the
problem. You can overcome these problems by loading a kenrel from
onboard flash, along with an initrd image containing the necessary
modules and initialising code, which then pivotroot's to, say, a root
partition on the usb flash/disk.

Also remember the USB maybe USB2 but it's only at 12Mbits per/sec - so
don't expect any sort of performance.


 
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