RE: [SLUG] Question about USB Pen Drive

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 15:37:08 EDT


Question: Could you use the boot floppy utility in that O/S to create a
bootable "floppy" on your USB drive?

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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eric Jahn
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:43 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Question about USB Pen Drive

A Compaq Evo D510M desktop computer at work actually prompted me if I want
to

boot off the pen drive I plugged into it. I don't know what BIOS it runs,
it

just says Compaq all over the place when I go into the BIOS settings. Now
if

you could just find a bootloader that can deal with a compressed kernel,

you're set...

On Friday 26 September 2003 11:25 am, you wrote:

> cpace@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> > I have recently acquired a USB Pen Drive and it works

> > great under linux. What I want to do is to actually

> > put a linux distro on it and boot to the USB drive

> > (my bios supports this funtion). I'm working with

> > DamnSmall Linux (www.damnsmalllinux.org) since it is

> > based on Knoppix and is supposed to have good

> > hardware detection. My problem is that I am trying

> > to figure out how to make the USB Pen drive bootable?

>

> Your BIOS needs to support booting from your USB device. Otherwise, you

> will need to bootstrap off of another BIOS bootable media.

>

> > I believe I could mount it with my main linux box and

> > then switch the root fs to the pen drive but the

> > damnsmall linux distro has a compressed image and I

> > am unsure as to how they get the bootloader to

> > decompress it?? I am open to suggestions for another

> > distro as long as it has X windows. I have a 256M

> > Pen Drive but would like something that fits on 128M

> > or less. Any ideas, suggestions or references to

> > information would be greatly appreciated.

>

> This is a motherboard BIOS limitation. You can always boot your USB

> kernel from floppy and continue using the USB device for your rootfs.

>

> Some Phoenix BIOSes (particularly laptops) have USB bootable floppy

> support, which is simply a standard usb-storage device. Unfortunately,

> they don't seem to permit booting from a USB Pen drive (I've tried to do

> this on my VAIO to no avail).

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