[ltp] USB memory pen

[Jon Tabor]

I've never booted from the USB pen I have, but Red Hat 7.3 finds it as /dev/sda1, if that helps at all.  As Tod says below, you should be able to point grub or lilo to the appropriate device.

Jon

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:24:28 -0500
Tod Harter <tharter@rhombus.net> wrote:

> I would assume those pens act as a USB Storage device. That means that they're 
> essentially a removable drive as far as Linux is concerned. In Mandrake at 
> least you can access them right off your desktop.
> 
> Unfortunately, booting has nothing to do with the OS, beyond how do you 
> install a boot loader. Well, in the case of Linux its pretty easy to install 
> lilo or grub on the boot sector of your pen, but then you have the problem 
> that your PC BIOS would have to be smart enough to try to boot off it.... I 
> suspect thats where your problem lies. Either the BIOS can, or it cannot.
> 
> Now, you can still boot off the disk even so by setting up the boot loader on 
> your fixed hard drive properly. In other words grub installed on /dev/hda is 
> perfectly happy to boot an OS off /dev/sda1 (as an example). So if that works 
> for you then just go on in and edit your grub or lilo configuration 
> appropriately! 
> 
> On Saturday 25 January 2003 06:46 am, Gerard van Winssen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there anyone who has been able to boot off A USB memory pen?
> > With the (win) utility that comes with the pen, you can do almost all the
> > things you can do with a normal H.D. such as farmat and make bootable.
> > Unfortunately the latter option doesn't work in W2K.
> > So I tried with cfdisk under linux to make the pen bootable without succes.
> >
> > My TP R31 bios says it can boot from USB floppy drive.
> >
> > In the meantime I made A bootable cd, with ps2 on it, but I can't write to
> > cd offcourse.
> >
> > TIA
> 
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