[Eug-lug] Booting from a USB drive?

[Ben Barrett]

Are you trying to map GRUB running from your hard drive to boot a removable
USB volume,
or trying to install GRUB on the flash drive to do ...whatever (assumes your
BIOS supports bootable USB here)??

Here are some pages for the latter:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/grub_intro/
http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/a-usb-stick-grub-and-ubuntu/
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/11/grub-on-stick.html (older)
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bootable_USB_Key and
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ

cheers,

ben



On 7/24/07, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Is this a USB drive or a USB flash device?
>
> On 7/24/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to configure Linux and Grub to boot from a USB
> > drive?  My laptop's BIOS knows how to boot from USB, but grub
> > can't find the USB drive.
> >
> > This is Ubuntu, FWIW.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Miller                              K<bob>
> >                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com
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