What's involved in making a bootable USB device for Linux? Is it even possible? I just came across a USB flash drive ( http://www.magicram.com/usb-flash.htm ) that's supposed to be bootable. Seems to me one of these with 64MB+ would be a better option for a "recovery"-type device than a dinky floppy or a fragile CD.
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 20:12, John Grant wrote:
What's involved in making a bootable USB device for Linux? Is it even possible?
AFAIK it has nothing to do with Linux or other OS's Your BIOS (i.e. hardware) must support it. Regards, Cees.
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:19:26AM +0200, Cees van de Griend wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 20:12, John Grant wrote:
What's involved in making a bootable USB device for Linux? Is it even possible?
AFAIK it has nothing to do with Linux or other OS's
Your BIOS (i.e. hardware) must support it.
Yes, of course. That much I could guess. :) I was wondering more of what happens when you boot on such a system & what tools you would need to use to set up the USB device. Would you use lilo for instance? How? "boot = /dev/???" Etc. -John -- http://63.194.251.2/
Hello John, On Thursday 09 May 2002 08:50, John Grant wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:19:26AM +0200, Cees van de Griend wrote:
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 20:12, John Grant wrote:
What's involved in making a bootable USB device for Linux? Is it even possible?
AFAIK it has nothing to do with Linux or other OS's
Your BIOS (i.e. hardware) must support it.
Yes, of course. That much I could guess. :)
I was wondering more of what happens when you boot on such a system & what tools you would need to use to set up the USB device. Would you use lilo for instance? How? "boot = /dev/???" Etc.
Note: I can't boot from a USB device and have never expirimented with it, I'm only guessing now. When you boot from your CD-Rom player, the BIOS temporally assigns 'A:' (floppy drive), to this device. I expect the BIOS does the same for another boot-device. So, starting the bootmanager, LILO or - my personal favorite - Grub, should be no problem. I expect the problem is finding the device name of your root partions. The root partition on a 'normal' disk should use the same names, like /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. If you want your root on a USB device, which under Linux can be accessed as a pseudo SCSI device, the trick would be to know the device name during booting. If you want more - and better (!) - information, you should ask your question at the Linux USB Users mailinglist (see: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users).
-John
Regards, Cees.
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