On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:22, Lee Causier wrote:
I would say that you would need to use a linux kernel with usb support in to either (depending on what you're aiming at) load another kernel and initrd from a USB device, the bootstrap that (more flexible) or just boot, mounting the appropriate USB device as / - safer I would guess (not sure) as you can always put in a CD with a working software set,
Bear in mind I may be wrong on this, I'm no expert, so as always, YMMV. Nicholas Mistry wrote:
As being a novice when it comes to linuxbios, i was wondering what would need to be done to have linuxbios be able to boot from a usb device?
IE: usb cdrom, usb HD, usb CF reader, usb pen drive, etc....
Is this something that would have to be done (or would be better accomplished) after linux loads its usb drivers, etc.. ?
If you can, do it after Linux has booted, when it should be easy. But if necessary you could write a usb storage driver for etherboot. I dont know enough about usb to know how much of a minimal driver you need (can you write a polled only driver?).