From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: When GRUB is on a USB device and is attempting to boot, it hangs with this message: Attempting Boot From USB Device GRUB _ (the underscore is where the cursor sits) Attempted fix: boot from rescue cd mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot chroot /mnt/sysimage mkinitrd -v --with-usb /boot/initrd-usb-2.6.8-1.154.img 2.6.8-1.154 exit exit <reboots> and it still hangs at the same point Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Boot from USB Device Actual Results: System hangs during boot Expected Results: System boots into Fedora Linux Additional info:
Reinstalled Fedora fc3test2, with GRUB in the MBR on the USB drive instead of first block of /dev/sda1 (the installer was unclear about the advantage of this change) Reboot, and grub loads vmlinux, but the kernel panics. Attempted fix: boot from rescue cd mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot chroot /mnt/sysimage mkinitrd -v --with-usb /boot/initrd-usb-2.6.8-1.154.img 2.6.8-1.154 edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to use new initrd exit exit <reboot> kernel panics again here is a hand copy of the kernel output: audit(1096317010.4294965466:0): initialized hdd: No disk in drive Red Hat nash version 4.1.11 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 hdd: No disk in drive No volume groups found No volume groups found No volume groups found mount: error 2 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! _ (the _ marks the cursor location)
Installs to USB hard drives aren't supported because of these sorts of reasons.