[Lubuntu-comms] the USB chainloader that helps other USB drives boot

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Israel,

The USB bootloader is meant to work like your second alternative, to
help booting from a USB device, that will not boot from the computer's
own boot menu.

But of course, if it is installed into an internal or eSATA drive, it
will help booting, but that is better catered for with the '40_custom'
method described in the following link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#Chainloading

The USB chainloader will not do the same thing as Plop, so it will be a
complement, not a replacement.

Best regards
Nio

2014-01-01 15:42, Israel skrev:
> Can you boot computers that have no capability to boot from usb, and
> have a broken optical drive?
> Or is this mainly just to boot a USB stick that is not supported by the
> computer to boot from?
> 
> On 01/01/2014 05:41 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Good question Jörn,
>>
>> The USB chainloader works from USB.
>>
>> I know Plop and have used it to boot USB via CD in old computers. I
>> tried to use Plop from USB. I could make it boot and run its menu, but I
>> was not able to boot another USB device from it, at least not with the
>> fairly modern hardware that I tested (for example professional class HP
>> laptops, the newest one with Intel i5).
>>
>> Under the hood the USB chainloader is a stripped system based on Ubuntu
>> 13.04. The grub bootloader and the boot directory is what is kept, and
>> the file grub.cfg is modified.
>>
>> So I would say that the USB chainloader is a complement to Plop. I'd be
>> happy if you can help me boot from USB with Plop and chainload into
>> other USB devices, because it would make it easier to have only one tool
>> for these similar purposes.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> 2014-01-01 11:33, Joern skrev:
>>> What is the difference to Plop boot loader?
>>>
>>> Am 01.01.2014 um 05:36 schrieb Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just finished a little tool that helps boot some computers from
>>>> [other] USB boot drives - the Chainloader
>>>>
>>>> The chainloader is useful for middle-aged computers, for example
>>>> computers without a CD/DVD drive, where it can be hard to boot from a
>>>> USB drive, or when you want to run from a fast USB 3 drive that is
>>>> unwilling to boot.
>>>>
>>>> -o-
>>>>
>>>> What is new, why a new tool? Isn't it enough to be able to use mkusb or
>>>> the other tools?
>>>>
>>>> The answer is in this tutorial 'Howto help USB boot drives'
>>>>
>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2196858
>>>>
>>>> -o-
>>>>
>>>> Phill, can the compressed image file be uploaded to your server? Maybe
>>>> it is too small to have an own link or page. Maybe it can share a page
>>>> with mkusb. What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Nio
>>>>
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