Re: bootable usb

[Samuel Thibault]

Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 27 Feb 2011 18:28:08 +0100, a écrit :
> On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:45:27 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > dd < mini.iso > /dev/sda
> > >
> > > Does it boot from the USB key?
> >
> > It will, yes.
> >
> > > I thought the Hurd were still missing USB support?
> >
> > But grub isn't, and that's what matters here.
> 
> Uh, argl, argl… ARGH!
> 
> That means, I could have installed a Hurd on my OLPC all along!
> 
> The list of things I still need to use the Hurd for my everyday tasks just
> shrunk by 33%: Only Wireless and Sound are missing (since I moved most of my
> work on the OLPC into emacs anyway).
> 
> And Sound is secondary, while for much of my productive work WLAN can be
> substituted with plugging the system-USB-stick into my main computer and
> synchronizing my Mercurial repos.

Err, I don't mean you can read/write a USB stick from GNU/Hurd, just
that grub can boot whatever it likes from a USB stick, thus GNU/Hurd
among others. Actual filesystem access is another matter.

Samuel