USB flash drives [was: RE: Migrating from the Legacy Diskette Drive: Ford Motor Company Case Study]

[Jason Clinton]

   Brian Densmore wrote:

I have even had to reload devfs. I have no doubt that
I could put a disk in there and create a grub entry and
boot from it. hmmmm

   Grub (and LILO) is not USB aware. You would have to boot from the BIOS
   which somehow emmulates a floppy disk. It's similar to the way a
   bootable CD works. I spent a few days on this several months ago and
   never got it to work.