[ltp] Trying to boot X31 (2672-C8G) from USB-Stick

[wes schreiner]

toens.bueker@lists0903.nurfuerspam.neuroserve.de wrote:

>Hi *,
>
>as my BIOS lists a "USB Mass Storage Drive 2" when a usb
>memory stick is inserted in one of the two usb ports of my
>X31, I supposed, that it should be possible to boot from
>usb stick.
>
>But I wasn't quite successful. I have verified, that the
>usb stick is read during startup - at least the error
>messages differ whether I use superfloppy ("Boot failed") or hard-disk
>format ("MBR Boot failed"). Even "GRUB" is shown on the screen, after I
>installed grub on the usb stick.
>
>I tried SPB-Linux (http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/) on the
>stick but the kernel was not booted.
>
>Can anybody give me a hint how to proceed? What is needed
>to not only read from the stick during startup but boot a
>kernel from it?
>  
>
The USB device must also support booting.  Some do, some don't.  See 
what the specs are for your device.

wes