[syslinux] Booting LINUX from external USB Hard Drive
Quinn
plattel at tiscali.dk
Thu Oct 21 08:39:53 PDT 2004
Bela Markus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to boot a LINUX system from an external USB Hard Drive.
> Motherboard (ASUS P4P800) supports boot from USB with or without
> floppy emulation. Is it possible to use syslinux for booting without
> any floppy or CD, just from the external USB drive?
>
No problems there, just format the usb hard drive to fat, install
syslinux on it and modify syslinux.cfg to point to the kernel and initrd
images.
Beware there is a bug in syslinux's memdisk in that it cannot boot msdos
images while the usb drive is the primary hard drive.
Quinn
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