Ayoub890 wrote:
/boot means the /boot directory. It can be a separate partition, on an IDE drive, or a CD. You might be able to make a boot floppy that will let you boot from a USB drive, but it will be a challenge to fit everything on a floppy, with the size of the current kernels. This should only needed if your BIOS does NOT support booting from a USB or Firewire device.Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Todd Slater wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote:Or if you can put /boot on a drive your BIOS does support. You need to load the kernel, and the initial RAM disk using the BIOS. After that, as long as support for the root file system in in the kernel, or the RAM disk, you are all set.
Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD?
Thanx,
Ayoub
As long as your BIOS supports it.
Todd
Mikkel
Does /boot mean the Master Boot Block?
I think this means that both the BIOS and the kernel need to have appropriate functionality.
Does the LM10 kernel have the necessary feature? and if so are there Motherboards with BIOS that support the feature?
Thanx,
Ayoub
Now, if the BIOS supports booting from IDE, then I see no problem with booting Mandrake off of one. There are a couple of Linux distributions already designed to be installed on, and booted from, a USB "pen" drive. So booting off a Firewire or USB hard drive should simply be a matter of including the proper drivers in the initrd file. It shouldn't be much different the booting from a SCSI drive.
Mikkel
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