On Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004, at 13:43 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
Getting linux to start from the HDD and continue from the USB drive may be as simple as modifying the root line in the grub.conf file:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html#q5
Given this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Device%20map
it appears that one may be able to simply add this line to grub's device.map file:
(hd5) /dev/sda
For comparison, here's what my current device.map looks like:
# cat /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda
As an aside, I'm curious to know where the BIOS numbers can be found:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Device%20syntax
Where can one discover that 0x80 is the first drive on the primary IDE chain? If we can discover that, then we should be able to find the device number for the USB drive.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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