Booting from USB flash drives

Thu Sep 18 15:30:37 CDT 2003

On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:26 pm, Brian D wrote:

> Actually it is possible to put the modules on the boot
> sector in a compressed file that the bootstrap precess
> uses. Secondly grub and lilo for that matter doen't
> need the BIOS to detect hardware and in fact I do not
> beleive either process uses the BIOS, but directly
> calls the hardware bypassing the BIOS. 

Great.  Let us know when you've got your system booting from a USB device, ok?