On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the sharpest thing since sliced bread. I have several drives for my laptop and murphy's law dictates that what you need is always on the other drive (theme, notes, etc.)
I connected the usb cable to my spare 2.5 inch drive, changed the bios to boot from (1) removable devices (2) hard disk (3) cd/dvd drive (4) network. (Laptop is a Toshiba P35-S629) I turned the computer on, the usb drive started right away and it looked like the system was booting from the usb drive. However, the system booted from the installed hard drive instead.
The usb drive was mounted automatically as:
media/disk /dev/sdb7 spare 10.3 /home media/disk-1 /dev/sdb6 spare 10.3 / media/xpdrive /dev/sdb1 spare 10.3 XP partition
Is there a grub boot parameter like (boot=/dev/sdb6) that will tell grub to boot from the usb drive? The reason being is that I would like to boot the install to update it. Any help will be appreciated and thank you whoever it was that recommended the usb to ide solution! I too would like to see this. I use both USB and Firewire enclosures that I would occasionally like to boot.
But I'm betting you won't get that to work because you would have to load some software just to get it to see that drive, and I'm not sure those pieces are going to be in the initrd.
I've booted the CDs / DVDs via an external USB optical drive numerous times, so I suspect the initrd has all the pieces for working with USB connected drives.
Most likely just a matter of editing the right grub entry and the fstab on the external. I havn't tried it, but it does not sound that hard.
Greg To find the initrd and vmlinuz files, GRUB uses the BIOS. Consequently, if the BIOS doesn't allow booting from a USB port, then you can't boot
Greg Freemyer wrote: directly to the USB drive. It make no difference what it on the end of the USB cable, it is still goes through a USB port. You would have to create a boot CD that would boot a minimal kernel that was smart enough to know about USB and then boot from the USB drive itself. You might find more details at pendrivelinux.com. I believe there is also a openSUSE howto on this subject. Bill Anderson WW7BA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org