Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:01:36PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 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.
Note that this would also work for those few of us that use bootable IDE
LS-120 drives and no legacy floppy (and can't write the 2.88MB image to
the LS-120 yet, of course.).
-- Ferret
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