Re: USB device not seen by grub

[BandiPat]

Chris Jones wrote:
> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick.
>
> I issued the following command from the grub command line:
>
> % insmod uhci
>
> grub was hung and I had to do a hard reset.
>
> Is this to be expected, considering that this is a fairly old system and
> the BIOS knows nothing about USB devices.
>
> Thanks,
>
> CJ
>
>
> _______________________________________________
If your BIOS on the computer does not support booting from USB devices 
then you probably got the correct result.  :-)

You might check to see if there is a newer bios for your motherboard 
that does support USB booting, but if not, I can't see how you could 
ever get it to work!

Regards,
Pat

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