[ubuntu-uk] usb boot ?

[Ted]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Andrew Jenkins <adjenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ted wrote:
>>     
>>> I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error
>>> when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and
>>> that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should
>>> other distros boot from it ?
>>>
>>> ----
>>>  Regards
>>>    Ted Wager
>>>       High Peak UK
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have a 1Meg USB pen-drive with Mandriva One booting from it.
>> Obviously the
>> machine will need to be capable of booting from USB.  I can't remember how
>> I did it, it was quite involved, but a quick Google on the subject was
>> all I did. I
>> found a very good page with lead-by-the-hand instructions that worked.
>>     
>
> I suppose you mean 1GB pen-drive.
>
> It all depends on the process you use to create the bootable USB disk.
> If you do manually, it may or may not work.
> In Ubuntu 8.04, you can install the 'liveusb' package (search
> Add/Remove...), which adds a tool at System/Administration/Install
> Live USB
> It requires to have an Ubuntu 8.04 installation CD in the drive.
>
> I think that in Ubuntu 8.10 there is a tool already there for the job.
>
> Simos
>
>   
Sorry..
 I meant 1gb...Also tried it on a new 4 gb stick using the Ubi gui but 
although all the files
seem to get transferred it will not boot nor do I get a grub boot 
message...The box boots
up to the hdd...If I put Puppy os on the stick it will boot up from the 
stick and run ok...

-- 
Regards
  Ted Wager
   High Peak UK
    Sidux Linux User