On Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004, at 14:19 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
This page implys it can be done. But in my case, the BIOS can't see USB drives. So I was trying to see if the linux kernel and initrd with preloaded usb and scsi could somehow bypass this restrication.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-27151.html
Right. It sounds similar to what Knoppix can do on machines that cannot boot from the CD-ROM: start the boot from a floppy and then continue from the CD-ROM. In your case, you want to start from the HDD and continue from a USB drive/stick.
How about trying a more simple project first: booting from a floppy and continuing from the HDD? Then you could modify it to boot from a floppy and continue on the USB, then boot from the HDD and continue on the USB. Just a thought.
FYI, Knoppix uses syslinux as its bootloader. It may be worthwhile looking at the code for mkbootfloppies under Knoppix. mkbootfloppies is just a bash script.
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