On 28/06/10 00:35, Eric Miller wrote: > do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability > to boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb > or floppy emulation? > I don't think so. I don't know about lilo. I don't think that grub has the drivers to do hardware probing. I think it just takes whatever the BIOS tells it and can't "see" anything else. If you can make a small partition on your hard drive (or some other device that the BIOS can "see") you can put the grub files and the kernel on that. Then grub can boot the kernel and the kernel (if you've compiled in all the correct drivers) should be able to mount a partition on the usb as it's root partition.
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