Problems booting

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I copied an OpenWrt installation to another disk and can't get it to boot up properly. I suspect the problem is due to the Grub menuentry, but it could be something else...

I'm trying to boot from a GPT partition on a 300GB disk which has two partitions allocated to OpenWrt. The disk is attached to a ThinkPad T500 via a USB adapter and does boot but not to completion.

The last couple of msgs say

Waiting for root device PARTUUID=f62c.........
psmouse serio2: trackpoint: IBM Trackpoint firmware...
Input: TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint....

and then it stops.

2

Are you installing OpenWrt on a laptop?

Can you disable the trackball from BIOS?

3

The msg is a bit of a red herring. I have copied a working version of OpenWrt to a different disk. On the new disk it is installed on a GPT partitiion - maybe that isn't significant, but I'm trying to get the Grub menuentry correct which could be the problem. The fact that it starts booting means part of the menuentry is correct. Maybe there is an alternative way of specifying root= apart from using PARTUUID...