On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:47:39PM -0600, Brian M Dube wrote: > On 12/10/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:57:33PM -0600, Brian M Dube wrote: > > > Hello, > > > >From the Debian Installer FAQ: > > > --- > > > And you can also use d-i to boot your system to chroot into your > > > installation and execute your boot-loader (grub, lilo, yaboot, ...) if > > > you cannot boot from hard disk any more. > > > --- > > > Does the above quote from the > > > FAQ mean that I could use the netinst CD to boot whatever kernel I > > > have configured on the USB medium? If so, would I need an internal > > > hard drive at all? > > grub on a floppy would work I suspect, but then again maybe it wouldn't. > > The cd can only boot the kernel on the cd, not the kernel on your usb > > drive. > Thanks for the reply. From the FAQ, what would the step "chroot into > your installation and execute your boot-loader" do, if not load the > kernel referenced there? This means execute the boot-loader *setup* program, to re-initialize the MBR or boot partition or whatever is used on your architecture of choice. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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