On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will an XO boot from a USB stick? SD cards of reasonable size are quite > expensive relative to similar-sized USB sticks, and I'm looking to build > a bootable Linux USB stick for other machines.
Open Firmware will recognise a USB stick as boot time, and will hane thread of control over to the software on it. In this sense, it treats a fulesystem on USB the same as a filesystem on SD, with the exception of boot order. Bootable USB is possible on the XO. Whether it works on other machines is largely dependent on the boot stack (BIOS, Open Firmware, etc) for that particular machine. -- Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
