Search the archive for this question. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Pedro Salazar wrote:
> Greetings, > > I have a USB pen drive that I can mount it on /dev/sda1, and I would > like to boot from it. > > I'm trying to use the GRUB and I already mapped my usb device with hd1 > on /boot/grub/device.map: > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hda > (hd1) /dev/sda <---- HERE! > > However, even I have access to the USB device from grub shell on my > system, at boot I can't map to the USB storage to hd1!! > > root (hd1,0) > 21 : Selected disk does not exist > This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full file name > refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by > the BIOS in the system. > > ** > I'm thinking that if the USB module isn't loaded then the USB device is > also unavailable! So, how can we boot from a flash device? > > BTW, my board is USB bootable but the GRUB isn't loaded by the USB flash > rather is loaded by hard drive. I already configured the boot order in > the BIOS. Isn't possible to boot from USB flash device? > > thanks, > Pedro Salazar > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
