FW: [Malvern] Booting from an external USB drive using Grub

[Angus Clarke]

Bios needs to boot the correct device first.

Bios is currently booting hard drive first, which is why Grub is loading.

In my mind, it's nothing to do with Grub - go into Bios and find an
option to boot from USB before hard disk.

Regards

Angus

Ian Pascoe wrote:

>Chris
>
>I reckon the problem lies with the BIOS as it does not have drivers in built
>for USB and as GRUB launches before the OS does, GRUB cannot access it.
>
>This is a stab at it and might be quite hairy fairy but it does seem to hold
>water for me - care to blast this one out of the brine?
>
>Ian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Eilbeck
>Sent: 10 August 2005 20:04
>To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Malvern] Booting from an external USB drive using Grub
>
>
>Does anyone have any clues how to get Grub to boot a kernel which runs
>with its root on an external USB drive?  I have a small Linux
>installation on the disk but it's gonna be such a faff to clone the MS
>shite on the same drive onto a bigger one and reinstall Linux.  I figured
>I'd just use the /boot I already have to boot the external disk, giving
>me the whole of that space for a decent Linux installation.
>
>Initrd seems to be the right way to go about this but I don't seem to be
>able to copy, uncompress and mount my existing initrd image so I can
>start messing around with it.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Chris
>--
>Chris Eilbeck
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