Re: chain loading USB harddrive if no native USB support possible?

[Gregg Levine]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Franklin PIAT <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 19:57 -0400, Gregg Levine wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Michael Reichenbach
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > > But as for booting from a USB device, got me. That one works from a
> > > > floppy if native boot support doesn't exist.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don`t see what runt has to do with it. It`s basically a slackware based
> > > distro for usb pendrives.
> > >
> > > My question here was how to (generic) boot an usb device if the bios does
> > > not support booting from usb. :)
> > >
> >
> > Hello!
> > And that's what RUNT Linux does.
>
> Runt (runt.mybox.org) is using syslinux... this is off topic.
>
> Franklin
>
>

Hello!
True. That's what he's using to launch his boot floppy. But I meant
how the kernel itself is built. Once a known working kernel is
available it should be very easy to do the next steps.

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