On Jan 23, 2008 3:22 PM, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Listmates,
> >
> >         I can't recall who suggested it, Aaron or Patrick, but somebody made
> > the suggestion to get a simple use to ide adapter to access spare laptop
> > drives, etc. Well, I purchased one, and it is absolutely the sharpest
> > thing since sliced bread. I have several drives for my laptop and
> > murphy's law dictates that what you need is always on the other drive
> > (theme, notes, etc.)
> >
> >         I connected the usb cable to my spare 2.5 inch drive, changed the 
> > bios
> > to boot from (1) removable devices (2) hard disk (3) cd/dvd drive (4)
> > network. (Laptop is a Toshiba P35-S629) I turned the computer on, the
> > usb drive started right away and it looked like the system was booting
> > from the usb drive. However, the system booted from the installed hard
> > drive instead.
> >
> >         The usb drive was mounted automatically as:
> >
> > media/disk      /dev/sdb7       spare 10.3 /home
> > media/disk-1    /dev/sdb6       spare 10.3 /
> > media/xpdrive   /dev/sdb1       spare 10.3 XP partition
> >
> >         Is there a grub boot parameter like (boot=/dev/sdb6) that will tell
> > grub to boot from the usb drive? The reason being is that I would like
> > to boot the install to update it. Any help will be appreciated and thank
> > you whoever it was that recommended the usb to ide solution!
>
> I too would like to see this.  I use both USB and Firewire enclosures that
> I would occasionally like to boot.
>
> But I'm betting you won't get that to work because you would have to load some
> software just to get it to see that drive, and I'm not sure those
> pieces are going to
> be in the initrd.

I've booted the CDs / DVDs via an external USB optical drive numerous
times, so I suspect the initrd has all the pieces for working with USB
connected drives.

Most likely just a matter of editing the right grub entry and the
fstab on the external.  I havn't tried it, but it does not sound that
hard.

Greg
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