I would imagine that the USB bus speed should be fairly quick so the only limitation is your USB drive speed itself. As for mounting it at boot I'm not sure. If the modules can be properly loaded from an initrd then I guess it's possible???? Anybody have any ideas?
Brett
>>> rhires@earthlink.net 03/12/02 23:07 PM >>>
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is it possible to even boot from a usb drive? Is the interface fast enough?
Russell
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 15:39 pm, you wrote:
> You would want the modules added into your initrd file in the /boot
> directory. Do a "man mkinitrd" to see the manual on how to add modules.
> Basically you would add the desired modules into /etc/modules.conf and
> rebuild initrd-2.4.9-31.img with a different name (just in case it hosed
> something) then add the new initrd entry into a brand new entry in your
> /etc/lilo.conf or /etc/grub.conf. Reboot and use lsmod to see if the
> modules were loaded.
>
> Brett
>
> >>> sam.maniotes@us.pwcglobal.com 03/12/02 12:33PM >>>
>
> I was wondering if anyone would know of a way to boot Redhat Linux 7.2
> from a USB disk drive off of a floppy drive.
>
> The problem I'm having is the USB drivers aren't loaded until after the
> bootstrap.
>
> Would anyone know the steps and files needed to create a boot image to
> place
> on a floppy drive for me to use?
>
> - Sam Maniotes
>
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