Thanks a lot to all who replied. The OS on the USB stick is Minix3 - not a Linux. So, it is not clear what I need to copy from the Minix to the boot directory of my Fed 7. I guess I need to ask this question of the Minix users list to see if anyone of them has booted Minix3 via Grub. Thanx, JD ---------------------------------------- > From: ja@xxxxxxxxxx > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:25:43 +0000 > Subject: Re: booting an external disk via grub > > > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 20:02 -0800, Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> Since my bios does not support booting from a USB stick, >> how can I modify my grub, so that it will boot from memory stick. >> My main internal (laptop) drive has 1indows in partition 1 >> and Fedora 7 in partition 2. Grub lets me select either linux >> or windows. But any external bootable device connected >> to the laptop either via usb or sata (cardbus) is totally invisible >> to bios and to grub. >> So, my question to the list is: What should be added to grub >> menus so that it can boot from external device? >> Could someone show a grub entry example of booting >> an external device that is invisible to BIOS? >> What about the OS on the external disk that we are trying to boot? >> Is there something that needs to be done to it so that the id >> it assigns to itself is same as that assigned to it by grub? >> (i.e such as hd0 or hd1, ...etc). >> >> Thanx for your help. > > Hi > > I haven't actually done this ... only something similar !!!! > > 1. Make sure your USB stick partitions are labelled uniquely, just makes > life easier. (/etc/fstab on the stick must match) /root_stick say for > root partition > > 2. Copy the kernel and initrd from you stick to your F7 /boot directory > - obviously check the stick file names are unique. vmlinuz_stick, > initrd_stick say. > > 3. The "F7" grub entry for the stick can then look something like > > root (hdx,y) The same as your F7 entry > kernel /boot/vmlinuz_stick ro root=LABEL=/root_stick > initrd /boot/initrd_stick > > Alternatives ... > Using F8 I have managed to boot an external "BIOS invisible" USB stick > 1 grub on a CD > 2 syslinux on a second USB stick > > John > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
