<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Enigma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enigma@thedonnerparty.com">enigma@thedonnerparty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">Can someone offer me the right grub magic to make this automatically boot? </font></font><br>
<font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">I'm looking for the right command for when I boot off sda and have the thumb </font></font><br><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">drive available as sdb, so that I can reboot without the hard drive (and the </font></font><br>
<font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">thumb drive will now be sda). The boot partition is sda1/sdb1. </font></font></blockquote></div><div>
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You should be able to do the following (as root)<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks. The boot from the thumb drive now proceeds automatically. But it was stopping very early on when it said it couldn't mount /dev/root. I finally figured out that I needed to rebuild the initrd image with the usb-storage module explicitly included. Success! Booting up is now about 5 times slower than with the hard drive, but once it's up, everything is the same so far. (Maybe that's how it goes with thumb drives, or maybe it's the consequence of buying the cheapest 4GB drive in the store...)<br>
<br>Removing the hard drive from the system unfortunately didn't decrease the noise level by much. So I started unplugging fans and found that the tiny microATX power supply's fan was the main culprit, even after I had replaced the extremely noisy original fan with something quieter. But I left all the fans unplugged, so let's see how long it can run silent before something fries!<br>
<br>Jim<br><br><br></div></div>