On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:56:49AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Greg., > > Tks for your advice. > > - snip - > > > both devices I ran; > > > > > > # cp -aR /mnt/hda5/* /mnt/sda1/ > > > > See the man page for cp for how to copy device nodes. Or use tar and > > a > > pipe.. > > I have searched the man pages of cp and tar without result. > > My problem comes from 2 FS, DSL running on HD on ext2 and the pendrive > formatted on FAT16. The latter is a MUST otherwise the BIOS of the > motherboard won't detect it. Adding to that is FAT16 does not support > symbolic link.
FAT16 also does not support device nodes... > What I'm trying to do it making Grub to run as bootloader instead of > syslinux. DSL on HD uses Grub as bootloader. In order to easy my test > I tried to copy it on the pendrive. That's great, but off-topic for this mailing list as this is not a USB kernel specific question. Why not talk about it on a grub mailing list? And I have no idea why you don't like syslinux, this is exactly what it was written for... oh well. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
