Re: how to boot off usb

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 14:57 -0700 schrieb sarta53:
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> > From: Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>
> > To: sarta53 <address@hidden>
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> > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 8:37:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: how to boot off usb
> > 
> > Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 06:17 -0700 schrieb sarta53:
> > > I have a PC that does not support booting from USB.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to create a bootable grub floppy or CD that will enable me 
> > > to 
> > boot off that initially then boot linux from a USB thumbdrive?
> > 
> > GRUB 2 has USB modules. But they aren't well tested and still young.
> > http://grub.enbug.org/USBSupport
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Felix Zielcke
> > Proud Debian Maintainer
> 
> I have booted off an initial boot floppy and continued the boot process off a 
> CD.  I'd like to find a utility that will enable me to create an initial 
> bootable CD or floppy and let me continue to boot a Linux OS from a USB drive 
> (on a pc that doesn't support booting from USB).  
> 
> Does such a thing exist?

GRUB 2 provides a grub-mkrescue script which generates a floppy or cd
image with it.
Then you only need to write a grub.cfg which loads the USB modules and
boots your Linux.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer