Ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 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).
>
>   
OK well that must be how it is done. I would like to have that 
capability because I backup my Ubuntu to a USB hard drive. I would like 
to boot the backup and be sure I have everything backed up :-)

Karl


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