booting from USB...questions!
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: booting from USB...questions!
started by: DImGR
Posted by DImGR on Oct. 05 2004,18:26
My motherboard is an Asus P4T533-C and to my surprise it does not have an option for botting off a USB device. It can boot up using ATAPI MO, ZIP, LS120 and any CD and hard drive devices. I do not dual boot with WIndows either.
Is it possible to somehow manage to boot it off a USB drive?
Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 05 2004,21:41
Nope..You CAN make the bootusb-0.8.img file found here..
< http://ibiblio.org/pub....0.8.img > into a floppy, which will BOOT the computer, find the USBkey,
then continue the boot and run from the key itself ..
73
ke4nt
Posted by Rapidweather on Oct. 06 2004,00:41
One strange thing I have run into lately with the usb boot.img floppy. IF you have any /KNOPPIX installed on any hard drive, or on CD in the CDROM tray, then the floppy will find one of those, probably ahead of your usb pen drive. So, one has to use it on a computer with Windows on the hard drive, and no /KNOPPIX folders anywhere. That leaves me out on this box, as I have three partitions that have those folders in them, for my remastering work. In testing the usb pen drive, I would have to remove those hard drives (unplug them) and just use a simple Windows or Redhat hard drive, with no /KNOPPIX anywhere, but on the usb pen drive. What happens when the floppy finds on of these partitions with a /KNOPPX in it? It has problems booting up normally, and shows a lot of various error messages. I used to test a new remaster by putting a /KNOPPIX in /dev/hda1, and the normal boot floppy would find it and boot it normally. Have not tried that with DSL 0.8.2 with the isolinux booting setup.---
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 06 2004,02:03
How about temporarily renaming the folders to "/KNOPPIX_nouse" and then rebooting?You could even automate it into two short scripts.
runusbdsl.sh
would rename all of the folders to /KNOPPIX_nouse
and
norunusbdsl.sh
would rename them all back to /KNOPPIX
Then all you need to do is run the appropriate script and reboot.
Posted by henk1955 on Oct. 06 2004,07:20
as of dsl-0.8.x you can have more then 1 /KNOPPIX dirs in the same partition.i have a /dsl-0.8.2 dir and a /dsl-0.8.1.1 dir and a /KNOPPIX dir
now if i want to boot to dsl-0.8.2 at the bootprompt i type
| Code Sample |
| dsl knoppix_dir=dsl-0.8.2 |
for 0.8.1.1. type
| Code Sample |
| dsl knoppix_dir=dsl-0.8.1.1 |
if you use loadlin (dos) you can make diferent bachfiles to start diferecr dsl-version.
if u use grub-loader (like me) you can have diferent boot menu enties.
this way you can test a new version or remastered image real easy
your examle
| Code Sample |
| dsl knoppix_dir=KNOPPIX_mouse |
and
| Code Sample |
| dsl knoppix_dir=KNOPPIX |
no need to use a rename script for each reboot.
FYI knoppix3.4 has some very interesting bootoptions