If you can boot grub from IDE or CD, you can try chainloading to the usb CF reader. I chainload servers to USB sticks all the time at my workplace datacenter. Pretty sure the CF readers are class-compliant mass storage.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
Eben King wrote:
Ultimately, I'm going to use this card in an IDE -> CF adapter as a boot
drive. In the meantime, I need to configure it on my machine. Is it
possible to have VMware Player treat it as a bare drive so I can "boot" (in
vmplayer) from a Linux install CD and have the installed OS run correctly
once it's in its destination? I'd like to do this without shutting down if
possible.
I have a USB CF card reader, and http://communities.vmware.com/thread/233044
describes how to set up VMware (not vmplayer, but I hope the setup is
transferable despite the lack of GUI and assistive programs to help you
along the way). It doesn't work for me, though that could be either that
USB is special (and I don't know how), or vmplayer can't do this.
If it turns out that the only reason it won't work is that vmplayer won't do
USB but will do IDE, then I guess I'll have to shut down, but if I can
bootstrap my way into an OS I'd rather go that route.
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