how to boot off usb

2009-09-04 Thread 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? ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: how to boot off usb

2009-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
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

Re: how to boot off usb

2009-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 14:57 -0700 schrieb sarta53: - Original Message From: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de To: sarta53 sart...@yahoo.com Cc: bug-grub@gnu.org Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 8:37:26 AM Subject: Re: how to boot off usb Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 06:17

Re: how to boot off usb

2009-09-04 Thread sarta53
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 Is this process documented on a website somewhere? Complete