kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.

[admin at kclinux.net]

You are choosing to boot off of a SCSI device in your BIOS aren't you?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Clinton [mailto:me at jasonclinton.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:22 PM
To: admin at kclinux.net
Cc: 'James Sissel'; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: kernel presentation at ILUG on Sat.

 

admin at kclinux.net wrote:

I don't see why not.  I've heard you can get linux to boot off of a USB 32MB
(or higher) memory stick.  (Something I plan on trying as soon as I can find
some information.  I got Windows 98 to work *don't ask* but haven't been
able to get Linux to boot.)  With this technology coming out, I have a
feeling floppies will be obsolete in the not-so-far future.
 

I have been trying too. I've looked everywhere for documentation of the
hardware process that occurs here. I have a 256 mb drive. I've discerned
that the process is very different than booting from other devices.

The drive appears as a SCSI drive in Linux. It has emmulated geometry data.
When I try installing grub to the master boot sector of the flash drive, it
fails. I can, however, install it to the MBR of any partitions on the Flash
Disk. It seems that the USB boot standard doesn't support seeking to
partitions for boot information, though. My computer just skips right over
the drive.

I'm beginning to think that some company has a patent on the boot process
and releasing details of the software process to make one of these bootable
would be a breach of a non-disclosure agreement. I, literally, cannot find
anything about the actual process that occurs when you use the Windows
utility to create a bootable Flash Drive.

I don't know. I have heard, however, that Knoppix supports using your USB
Flash drive as a home directory. This means a bootable CD+USB Flash Disk =
Linux-In-Your-Pocket.

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Jason Clinton
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