Re: Grub/Linux on USB-Stick?

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:11:46PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Well yes. Assuming your computer is new enough to handle booting from
> a USB attached device, your "stick", a Fob type device, such as the
> Disk On Key device from M-SYS, and it shows up under the /dev/sda
> settings for SCSI devices, you should select the correct GRUB settings
> for SCSI devices. Of course this presupposes that the BIOS recognizes
> USB devices for booting from, and that you have booted from it, using
> a normal loader before this.


I just solved the problem: I had fooled myself.

The computer I used to test it couldn't boot from a USB stick, 
but it nevertheless did access the stick, so the LED on the stick was
flashing, which made me believe that the stick was being read. 

Actually there was some old software installed on the PC which also
used GRUB. So I saw the GRUB label and assumed I'd saw the stick
booting, while it actually was the hard disk.

I then tried the stick on a newer computer, and it booted from the
stick (at least it started the kernel). The kernel then couldn't mount
the root file system. I guess that's because the kernel doesn't have 
USB support built in. I need to prepare a ramdisk which loads the 
USB kernel modules and then mount the USB stick.


Thanks and regards
Hadmut