[syslinux] CHAINing to a USB Thumb Drive

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mr Roboto wrote:
> I was doing a laptop repair job today and needed to boot from a USB
> thumb drive, in order to free up the CD/DVD burner.  Fortunately, the
> laptop to be repaired permitted one to boot from a USB thumb drive.
> However, there are still PCs out there that can't boot from a thumb
> drive (I have two), so I was wondering if it's pos to use the CHAIN
> module to boot from a thumb drive ?  I looked at the source for the
> module, but no joy there.
> 
> If CHAIN can't be used, does anyone on the list have a suggestion for
> enhancing my SYSLINUX project w/ a tiny Linux distro, which could be
> used as a simple USB thumb drive bootstrap ?  TIA....Jet

Perhaps the first question would be: where are you chaining *from*?

	-hpa