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Knoppix on USB I’ve been using Knoppix for about two years now, and I’ve got the following question. Could you describe, in a step-by-step guide, how to boot Linux (Knoppix) from a USB device. I’ve read some articles about this issue, but I haven’t been lucky so far. As far as I understand from these articles, it’s a matter of creating an initrd, which, after initial boot, should be able to mount the file system from the ultimate USB device on / (root). I did manage to make myself a new initrd but I still get the following error at book: Kernel panic not syncing : U VFS: Unable to mount root fs U on unknown block (8, 17)" I currently think that this is due to the fact that my initrd has USB & SCSI support as loadable modules, whereas I think this support has to be build into the kernel, which I don’t know how to do. Maybe I’m quite wrong in my efforts. Is there another way to make this work? Maybe you can write an article about this issue in Linux Magazine.

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