John Andersen wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 8:15 AM, Philipp Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't tried with USB, but with any other boot media I've encountered.
Nuff said.
Presumably the OP wanted to boot some other OS off of the USB disk.
You are going on about initrd like you ASSUME he
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:22:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Say he has Windows on the USB device. Then what? You expect that
to boot with linux drivers?
Please get the context right. I answered to Aaron, not the OP, because
it's not necessary to compile in drivers.
I see no reason to expect
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
John Andersen wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 9:29 AM, Philipp Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Aaron Kulkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080124 11:23]:
So, part of the solution is recompiling the kernel
to include the USB module (and all the others which
the USB module depends on).
Nonsense! You add the
On Jan 25, 2008 8:15 AM, Philipp Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't tried with USB, but with any other boot media I've encountered.
Nuff said.
Presumably the OP wanted to boot some other OS off of the USB disk.
You are going on about initrd like you ASSUME he is going to boot
linux
* John Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080124 23:05]:
Have you actually DONE this? It sounds like speculation
to me.
How do you think your kernel boots, given that the ide/sata/scsi drivers
and the drivers for the file system you use aren't compiled into the kernel?
They're loaded via the
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter
Exactly. If grub loads from the usb device, it doesn't have to be told about
the usb device. Chicken or egg thing.
Lincoln Rutledge
Network Engineer
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Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/08 7:33 AM
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John
* Aaron Kulkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080124 11:23]:
So, part of the solution is recompiling the kernel
to include the USB module (and all the others which
the USB module depends on).
Nonsense! You add the necessary modules to INITRD_MODULES in
/etc/sysconfig/kernel and then afterwards call
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
On Jan 24, 2008 9:29 AM, Philipp Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Aaron Kulkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080124 11:23]:
So, part of the solution is recompiling the kernel
to include the USB module (and all the others which
the USB module depends on).
Nonsense! You add the necessary
On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop
drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the
On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare
Listmates,
I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop
drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the sharpest
thing since sliced bread. I have several drives for my laptop and
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