Is it possible, yes if you can boot from a pen drive. I would certainly not do that.. first, on a hard drive, the boot sector contains a physical address of the stage1 boot code. The boot process then loads stage1. Stage1 then loads the specific stage1 for the file system (eg. e2fs_stage1_5) which then loads /boot/grub/stage2. stage2 then reads the menu.lst (or grub.conf) and presents the boot menu etc. Since pendrives are normally FAT devices, the boot should work, but I would not recommend it. I think you are better off simply setting up a small /boot partition. You can easily back that up to a pen drive and you can easily boot a rescue CD.
-- Jerry Feldman
Hi, why wouldn't you use it?, i barely poweroff that pc, so i wont really stress the pen drive.... And the last time i checked, grub didn't support /boot on raid5, that's why i would like to avoid installing on the HDD. The problem, i think, would be to mount the pendrive on /boot at the installation stage... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org