An Interesting Problem

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Here's a paradox:
This computer, and all Dell computers from the same time period do not
recognize the logic of booting from USB, (It's not in the BIOS)
however they support the use of USB attached media providing the OS
supports it.

Can GRUB be convinced to boot a USB attached drive, if the machine's
BIOS does not support it?
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Now here are my reasons. 
I have here a USB adapter that connects a normal IDE attached drive,
to the USB connectors on the Dell family of machines that live here.
Linux recognizes it as SDA, well typically SDA it depends on how the
OS recognizes the drive. Xen uses GRUB as a boot loader to facilitate
the booting of Xen configured domains. Don't complain to me regarding
their naming of the different OSes, it happens that's what the fellows
there chose. And it happens I'd like to experiment with Xen. Either
Linux of course or NetBSD who also has support for Xen. 

The website for Xen discusses how it works, and predictably how. it
also happened to be linked from the pages for the NetBSD/Xen idea. I
don't have a machine here to work with it, but I do have the drives.

Any complaints, questions, and you name it, please contact me
directly. Anything GRUB-Legacy related we can leave on the list.
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Gregg C Levine address@hidden
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"Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi