i'm trying to avoid using plop, the interface is very ugly and this is for a professional project.
plop functions perfectly though....it just looks like a video game from 1985. could I do a full boot into a small linux like tinycore and then do some kind of scripted chroot? On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Smartboy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > Andy > > -- > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > > Another way could be to make a small LVM partition which then is > shared with the other hard drive. Then, boot should be able to boot > the USB partition without actual support for USB (I say should > because, in theory, this works, but I haven't tested it). > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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