USB booting :: Can't get dsl to boot

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Hiya

I thinnk you see the error you have at the moment because you've "/dev/sda1" set as the backup device instead of just "sda1"

Open the DSLpanel and run Backup/Restore. Your backup device should be sda1. Then click on backup.

Try it out, HTH

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sda is a non-mountable device once the system gets up and running. I found out though that sda is created when dsl detects the hub it is connected through. It ends up being a "ghost" device of sorts that points nowhere. The issue disappears when I connect the usb stick to the computer directly.

So here are a couple of observations and it may be different from computer to computer depending on configuration.

1. Booting through a hub may cause sda to appear in the /mnt listing but you cannot mount it. There is no reference to a device being associated with sda in dmesg.

2. Firewire drives are assigned device names before usb devices are. My 200GB Firewire drive got sda where the boot drive got sdb.

And of course my usb based Sandisk Imagemate 12-in-1 flash card drive (read and write) wasn't detected. I was hoping it would of been detected as 4 new drives. One of which I would of used to boot from using a 64MB flash drive I have lying around. I will look into this but it appears to be supported on the 2.6 kernel for other distributions...

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