LinuxBIOS doesn't support USB pen drives or USB compact flash. It does support ATA (IDE) flash devices.
On a normal (proprietary) BIOS: Booting from USB is supported on many newer motherboards with a BIOS that supports this. I use Flonix to boot from a 64MB USB pen drive: http://mir2.ovh.net/flonix/ The Flonix forums are at: http://www.flonix.com/support/viewforum.php?f=11 I also tried Puppy Linux (http.goosee.com/puppy/), but the USB bootloader (syslinux 2.08) didn't work for me. Using Knoppix 3.3 2-16-2004, I was able to install it's syslinux 2.04 bootloader: # syslinux /dev/sda1 To make Flonix bootable, you can also use the above command from the Knoppix live CD. (The first USB flash is /dev/sda, if there are _no_ SCSI drives. Otherwise, USB flash is the last "SCSI" device, i.e. /dev/sdc with two SCSI hard drives with special files /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.) There are other Linux distributions built to be installed on a USB pen drive or flash. Check out http://www.linux-usb.org/ for general Linux USB information. BTW, I sent Flavio a private e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it bounced. So, I'm forced to answer via the LinuxBIOS mailing list. Sorry. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
