Re: boot from USB


William Park wrote:
Eben King <ebenONE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It depends on your BIOS. If your BIOS can't boot from USB drives, then
you can load the kernel from floppy or harddisk.

It can (on my Thinkpad). I've booted from another USB hard drive
before. But if the BIOS tries to boot from lilo on the USB drive's
bootsector, I get "L 90 90 90" etc.

USB harddisk should be straightforward. You can move harddisk from
/dev/hda to /dev/sda, and it should boot. Mine does. USB key drive
(flash) is different animal altogether. It requires 'syslinux', not
'lilo'.

Have you tried Enabling "legacy USB support" in the BIOS ? (usually
neccesary for USB type keys and mouse to function during boot -
low-level activities).
Is what you're trying to boot from perhaps have a faulty Partition
table or corrupt File system ?

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