Booting from USB flash drives
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Thu Sep 18 10:52:54 CDT 2003
If I understand the process correctly, you can't really boot from a divice
that isn't supported by the kernel itself - deviced supported through modules
aren't bootable, because the kernel has to have the filesystem open to read
the modules. Therefore you'd have to compile the USB and USB/Filesystem
modules into the kernel for it to be bootable.
As far as getting grub or lilo to read a USB device for the boot source, I'm
not sure that that would work unless, as has been suggested, the MB's BIOS
offered USB as a bootable device.
Hacking ROMs and other devices is really beyond the scope of the original
question.
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