John Andersen wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:33 AM, Bill Anderson <bill@bill-anderson.com> wrote:
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 directly to the USB drive.
This might be true for some values of "boot".
Grub is launched (booted?) by the bios. After that, it is explicitly told where to find its initrd/vmlinuz/command.com or whatever by lines in the /boot/grub/menu.lst.
As long as enough drivers can be made available to handle the USB port, Grub itself imposes no limitation on which devices it can "boot" from
But if the BIOS doesn't have USB capability, then it can't find grub on a USB device, forcing you to install grub on something else. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org