On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:40:09 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>      1. You have to have entries in your initrd's filesystem for /dev/sda
>       and /dev/sda1.  Otherwise you won't have any way to access the USB 
>       device.

Or you have to have udev running. I think this is what Fedora does.
Peter Jones said he was booting with USB keys just fine (using ub).

>      2.       You have to allow time for the USB and SCSI stacks to recognize
>       the pendrive.  5 seconds is minimal, 10 seconds should be plenty.

I think it can be faster. Fedora polls /sys/block to see if devices
have appeared (either sda or uba, any one works).

-- Pete


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