This has some hints: http://ftp.bay13.net/pub/las/INSTALL-USB
Or: http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/
But mainly it is about getting the USB stick to boot. I may try to flash my BIOS. I have other reasons (ACPI) to do that. However, if I make a new partion on my current drive (the one with grub on it,) then syslinux it (with these changes to miniroot.gz to support loading the usb kernel modules.) Or use ISOLINUX (syslinux derivative for ISO-9660 devices (seedy roms :)) for this.
Then what needs to happen? After the kernel loads, at some point it has to transfer over to the remainder of the boot process. My guess it mounts various partitions and transfers control to init or tells init to run with what ever runlevel you specified. /etc/inittab.
My understanding of this whole process is week.
Ed
Robert Citek wrote:
On Thursday, Dec 16, 2004, at 12:34 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
Certainly I can do that or from within FC. Just setting up a chroot once the USB drive is mounted. But, before I start that (laborious) process, I wanted to make sure there is a way to boot the machine from the USB. Trouble is I have no floppy, except for a USB floppy.
Makes sense.
I may forgo this for now and just swap drives in my Laptop. Except, there seems to be no easy way to accomplish that either.
Ah, I think I understand. You have an existing linux install on an internal drive. You now want to install another linux on an external USB2 (or FW) drive. Then, at boot up you can decide which install you want to run. Is that right?
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