On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:22:39PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 
> Secondly, booting from a USB device. 
> Ok, so something (eg BIOS) loads kernel from USB device, and you start.
> Do you then need usb-storage.o in order to reach the device (eg. a
> CDROM, etc) to load what happens next?

Yes, you need this.  But if you load a usb controller, you will also
need to have the usb keyboard controller, as you then can not rely on
the BIOS to translate the keycodes into ps2 keyboard input :)

> (is it possible to boot from one of those cute USB memory sticks?)

I have heard of people successfully doing this, yes.

Good luck,

greg k-h


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