Ubuntu 8.04

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ashish Yadav wrote:
>>>    How does Fedora do it? We are talking about Grub not type of Linux.
>>>
>>>     
>> I don't know how they do that, but the fact is that I *have* installed
>> Fedora on USB hard disk and boot from it.
>>
>>
>>   
>     Sorry. If the grub files are in a directory on the USB hard drive 
> then it can't be reached until the USB part of the computer is turned 
> on, and it can't be turned on until the kernel is running.

The BIOS with the ability to boot from USB should be all that's needed 
to use the boot sector of a USB drive. There are a number of 
mini-distros that boot from thumbdrives this way, and newer dells will 
see a plugged in USB drive and offer to boot from it at boot time from 
the boot menu if you hit the proper key at startup time (but won't show 
it if you don't have it plugged in and powered up at startup).