[syslinux] Booting LINUX from external USB Hard Drive

[Quinn]

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