USB booting :: Problem by installing to USB



I am having the same proplem as above
I am typing    sda   at the prompt and the install cant find the drive.
I am using  a 1 gig sandisk cruser mini.
any tip?
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dmesg | grep scsi -A 3


in a terminal window to find your stick's device name.

It might be "sda" or "sdb" or some other name.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 05 2005,18:29)
Type:

Code Sample
dmesg | grep scsi -A 3


in a terminal window to find your stick's device name.

It might be "sda" or "sdb" or some other name.

OK
I have and this is what i get:


kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
--
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
 Vendor: TSSTcorp  Model: CD/DVDW TS-L532A  Rev: QG52
 Type:     CD-ROM                                                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub


SO....!
Now what?
my USB drive lights up (if that is significant)
Also my bios is set to boot from USB

I had a thumbdrive app suite installed on the USB drive and when I would leave it in the computer and reboot is would try to boot from the stick. This is in Winxp
This tells me that your CD/DVD drive was detected at devicename sr0

But there is no mention of your USB drive.

For example, when I have my Sandisk 1GB Cruzer Mini, I see this info:

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scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
 Vendor: SanDisk   Model: Cruzer Mini       Rev: 0.1
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 2001888 512-byte hdwr sectors (1025 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: sdb1


Maybe your USB controller is not working correctly.

If you type:

lsmod

you should see a uhci, ohci or ehci driver module present, and with your drive plugged in you should see usb-storage present.

You can also see this on the Modules tab of the System Stats program.
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