Can't get it to work. Can't find any documentation stating whether or not it is even supported. Don't know why a reasonable person would want to, but... I install to a Maxtor USB2040 okay but on reboot it can't mount the root fs. During install /boot is installed to /dev/sda1 and root to /dev/sda3. After the "Loading Linux....." screen, initialization proceeds to the point where VFS mounts root (ext2 filesystem) successfully. Then reiserfs.o runs and kmod spits out the message 'failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k, block-major-8, errno=2. Errno 2 seems to be No Such File or Directory. VFS then reports 'can't open root device 803, please append a correct root boot option'. So I've tried root=/dev/sda3 and root=/usbdevfs. No luck. System supports USB 1.1 and boot from USB. Hard drive is USB 2.0 device that supports USB 1.1 Is it possible? Is there a stupid user trick? Been there, done that? Thanks, Chris Houghton Intel Corp