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 -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
