I have to use Windows XP tommorrow night for some recording.

I have it installed onto a laptop hardrive I did that last night...but
I've taken it out because I only have room for one hard drive.

It is now sitting in a 2 1/2" removable case. Is there a way to use GRUB
to boot off the removable USB disc...

In linux its something like
/dev/sda1 or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 (or ./disc)


I have tried:

title Win XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


And have substituted that hd1,0 for a number of things. But it only
seems to be able to access IDE discs/cdroms not USB devices.

Is it possible? Because I really can't be bothered to keep swapping the
drives, and I will only be using windows once a week if that.

I am currently using grub (GNU GRUB 0.96) and gentoo linux (not that
that should matter to booting win)

oh and there is no bios support to boot directly off a usb device my
laptop is a couple years old now.

thanks

Luke
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