discuss: Booting from a USB disk HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Booting from a USB disk HOWTO
From:
"Pedro M." ####@####.####
Date:
4 Feb 2004 15:45:41 -0000
Message-Id: <402121B2.9060406@telefonica.net>
jing tang wrote:
> Hi, David and Pedro,
>
> I appreciate your comments!
>
> I'd appreciate if someone could provide a list of
> Bioses that can boot USB keys so that I can put them
> in the document. I think that any USB keys could be
> configured as bootable as long as the bios is
> supporting booting from USB.
>
This couilde be a question to be answered in the FAQ . We can obtain
answers from http://www.linuxbios.org/ email list
http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Another interesting link http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/
>
> In case the BIOS does not support booting from USB, in
> the revised document above I've stated that the USB
> keys could work as the root file system (based on
> Charles Curley's comment). In that case the USB key
> plus a bootable floppy could still work as a whole
> Linux OS.
Use a floppy is only the last option, because the floppy is quickly
degradated by the past of the time (in everyday use).
You publish like tested USB keys (in the same FAQ or in a link from the
faq to a special page in your website):
*http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/english/suppliers.html
*http://linuxkey.biz
For example, my transcend key cannot be bootable because one needs DOS
boot files
Regards.
Regards.
>
> --- "Pedro M." ####@####.#### wrote：> David
> Ranch wrote:
>
>>>Hello Jing,
>>>
>>>One comment: please add a requirements section.
>>
>>Specifically, very few
>>
>>>BIOSes can boot off a USB device today. Going
>>
>>forward, I sure hope this
>>
>>>becomes a standard feature for both USB and
>>
>>Firewire.
>>
>>>--David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >This is resent due to the previous e-mails were
>>
>>broken
>>
>>> >for some unknown reason. Sorry for any
>>
>>inconvenient.
>>
>>> >
>>> >I've written a mini-HOWTO on installing the
>>
>>Linux OS
>>
>>> >on a USB disk. Unpon success the whole OS
>>
>>(inclues
>>
>>> >the GRUB boot loader, the boot and root file
>>
>>system)
>>
>>> > will reside on the USB disk and the user could
>>
>>be
>>
>>> >able to boot from the USB disk.
>>> >
>>> >The document is located here:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.tangshanjing.0catch.com/bootingUSB_ldp.htm
>>
>>> >
>>> >Would you please review this document?
>>> >
>>> >Any comments would be highly appciated!
>>> >
>>> >Reagrds,
>>> >Jing S. Tang
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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>>
>>One could add some examples of bioses and USB that
>>can boot Linux:
>>
>>
>>- Bioses that can boot USB keys
>>- USB keys that can boot Linux.
>>
>>This would be for an initial phase.
>>
>>Regards.
>>
>
>
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