[Eug-lug] Booting from a USB drive?

[Michael Miller]

Bob,

Does ioprobe give you a list of drives?

On 7/24/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > Is this a USB drive or a USB flash device?
>
> USB hard drive.  Rotating platter(s).
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
>
> > 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)??
>
> I'd rather make it completely independent of the internal hard drive.
> So I want to install grub on the USB drive.  The BIOS does support
> booting USB.  (The BIOS image is dated June, 2007.)
>
> > Here are some pages for the latter:
>
> Thanks.  Will peruse.
>
> --
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
>                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com
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