Hi, You might be able to do it if the kernel and rdisk image (boot-time ramdisk) are on your internal drive. Just set up your root and other filesystems to be on the USB drive. It will appear to be a SCSI disk, as USB storage encapsulates SCSI CDBs in USB packets.
I boot Fedora this way on a PC whose BIOS doesn't support USB boots. However, it took some work as the stock Fedora rdisk image didn't include the drivers needed for USB storage. I've been meaning for eons to write a HOWTO about it, but haven't had the headspace for it yet. I'm afraid I don't remember much about it, as it was over a year ago. I also did this with a FireWire drive on an iBook. yaboot, a PowerPC Mac boot loader, can't load kernels from SBP-2 devices, so I put the kernel and rdisk on the internal drive. Hope this is enlightening, Mike Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
