Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support
Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
>
> --- Eric VB <eric@femto.eric.ath.cx> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I understand well, but don't you
> > have any hard drive ? If you
> > have one, you can install Debian from it.
>
> I have a hard drive, yes :) But when booting off the
> rescue floppy one then has to use the root floppy as
> well. When using a USB floppy drive, at boot time the
> BIOS recognise it as a floppy drive, but afterwards
> Linux sees it as a USB device. So I cannot use the
> root disk.
>
> Tried LILO but it doesn't work for some strange
> reasons. Nothing happens after 'Uncompressing Linux'
>
> Will try the Progeny installer today.
I wonder if the root disk could be loaded as an initrd, i think grub
might be able to handle images from different floppies.. not sure
though.
That way the kernel wouldnt need USB drivers, just the bootloader would
need to access the USB floppy which it probably does through the bios.
Glenn
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