Re: Boot from memory-stick?

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 07/25/05

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    Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:45:03 +0100
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    Monkey Pet wrote:
    > I am trying to figure out booting from a USB memory stick also.
    > Basically, I have installed linux and don't want to put grub on the
    > MBR since I have a dell laptop and don't want to blow alway the
    > recovery utilities, etc. I am currently booting into linux using a CD
    > created by the mkbootdisk program. I want to be able to do the same
    > thing, but put it on the usb memory stick. What would be idea is just
    > to put grub on the memory stick and be able to point it to the hd to
    > do the actual booting. I know my bios supports booting off the memory
    > stick.

    When you installed Fedora, did you install grub on the boot/root
    partition (rather than the MBR)? If so, you could install grub on any
    other device (memory stcik, floppy etc.) and use an entry like this:

    title Fedora Core
             rootnoverify (hd0,1)
             chainloader +1

    (where (hd0,1) is the partition grub is installed on)

    to boot Fedora.

    Paul. 

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