discuss: Booting from a USB disk HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Booting from a USB disk HOWTO
From:
"=?gb2312?q?Jing=20S.=20Tang?=" ####@####.####
Date:
5 Feb 2004 08:15:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20040205081553.98547.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>
--- "Pedro M." ####@####.#### wrote> 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/
Pedro,
Thank you very much for the info. I've posted a
question asking for the list of BIOSes from linuxbios.
>
> >
> > 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
Thanks for the info!
I'm thinking if we could provide a HOWTO on re-burning
the BIOS to support booting from USB disk. The info on
the FAQ of linuxbios does not provide a detailed guide
on re-burning the BIOS.
Anybody knows if there's an existing document talking
about how to re-flash the BIOS?
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