Bootable USB

[Nate]

If you have a system which can't boot from USB, you can make a grub boot CD
which will chainload the USB boot media.  Perhaps it will be that last CD
you have to burn :)

I blogged about Ubuntu's USB Creator as well as making a Grub Boot CD
specifically for this purpose last fall.  If you are interested, the
instructions for making the Grub Boot CD are in the 3rd paragraph here:
http://omegamormegil.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/ubuntu-usb-creator/

Nate

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Brian Kemp <brian.kemp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I'm not familiar with the RedHat/CentOS/SuSE world; I've mostly stuck to
> Debian derivatives, so...
>
> Doesn't 9.04 come with an option to create a bootable USB device? (I
> don't run 9.04 much and my only 9.04 box is about to be replaced with
> gNewSense 2.2)
>
> My FSF membership card is bootable to gNewSense 2.1, although I didn't
> install it so maybe it was hard :)
>
> I believe the Ubuntu community has been enjoying the fruit of these
> labors for about a month.
>
> As for me, I don't have many boxes that can boot off USB. So Live CDs
> are not going away but it's great to have more options. (Plus you don't
> have to keep making plastic discs that aren't so handy when the next
> release hits, RW media notwithstanding.)
>
> --BK
>
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> > A USB Flash Drive is just another form of a disk. What's the big deal?
> >
> > In theory, nothing. And indeed, CentOS 5.2 (and other suitably modern
> > distros) will indeed install and run exactly as as any other disk,
> > assuming that your computer can boot a USB disk.
> >
> > However, up until recently, you had to make a few tweaks. The basic idea
> > is that the initrd has to load the drivers. What was needed (as recently
> > as CentOS 5.0) was after doing the install (which needed the "expert"
> > flag added to the boot: prompt), you had to boot the install system in
> > Rescue Mode, and rebuild the initrd.
> >
> > The easiest way was to figure out which drivers you needed (try
> > usb-storage and things with sd in them) to add and mark them a
> > scsi-controller in /etc/modprobe.conf and do another mkinitrd.
> >
> > More difficult is adding an option switch for each desired module.
> > Harder still is picking the initrd apart via gunzip and cpio and
> > reassembling in after modifying the "filesystem".
> >
> > Note that I am glossing over details, mostly because you needn't do most
> > or indeed any of this stuff anymore...it just works because the distro
> > builders are putting more stuff in the installers because more people
> > are using systems that way.
> >
> > Guess what? With the advent of Flash Drives....
> >
> > LIVE CDS ARE DEAD. Well, not dead, but unnecessary.
> >
> > You heard it here first.
> >
> > JIM
> >
> > Robert Eisenzopf wrote:
> > > Likewise at the same site a topic just covered,
> > > "How to Install a Linux Distro to a USB Flashdrive"
> > > using either Ubuntu orFedora
> > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-install-linux-usb-flash-drive
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