On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:19 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 22:57 -0500, Philippe Rigault wrote: > > If one wants to boot Fedora Core from a USB key (using diskboot.img from > > the > > images directory), it is currently only possible to run the installer, but > > not a rescue environment. > > > > It would be very helpful to be able to boot a rescue environment from an > > USB > > key. > > > > Is that doable easily ? > > I'm reasonably certain that if you boot the diskboot.img with 'rescue' > as a boot option, you'll get a rescue environment. In fact, I just > tested it and it does work.
it only works if your USB device uses a partition table. The USB devices that don't use a partition table do not work in this way. At least that's my experience from last week trying to rescue my firewall from a dead disk
