John Andersen wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:33 AM, Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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