On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:20, you wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it's possible, and if so how, a USB stick can be > > > made to be setup as dual boot with either Lilo or Grub (I assume). > > > > > > I have a 2Gb USB stick which currently boots to SysRescueCD, but I > > > would also like to dual boot to Ubuntu as well. > > > > Welcome to a topsy turvey world: > > > > You *can* just do normal grub stuff. I've done it 10% success rate :-( > > You probably need to RFM on syslinux. > > Your CD probably has got booting done with syslinux and its different, > > but not too hard to do. > > > > With both it IS possible, from what I've seen 100% success rate with > > syslinux > > usb sticks should boot just fine grub; the kernel and initramfs on the > ubuntu cd's will boot fine with grub; but you'll need to pass in the > same magic parameters that the isolinux on the cd is if you want to boot > into the ubuntu livecd environment (without them it tries to boot > normally without the squashfs and unionfs stuff that casper provides).
I'll give you normal usb working sticks that DO and ones that DO NOT work. There is much magic under the hood here! EG there is a DOS utility to turn non booting into booting usb sticks! So this answer may be correct, but it is not *true* James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
