USB boot on buggy bioses recipe
Can one do it using Debian Installer ? (to install debian in the USB
pendrive to boot )?.
Regards.
http://live.debian.net/wiki/Installer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Llu?s Gras" <serni@serni.net>
To: <debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 2:22 PM
Subject: USB boot on buggy bioses recipe
Hi ... we have about 30 pc at school that doesn't boot correctly from usb
devices, by now i'm doing network installs with partimage but in some
cases, wifi access only pc i don't know how to do it. In these i like to
install our own Live Debian based distro, Xarnoppix build up with
makeliveusbcd a very similar project but with diferent guidelines
regarding points 2 and 3 of Debian Live Initiative.
I think the recipe would be helpful when Debian Live allows usb boot, ...
it seems to work correctly in i386.
xarbox:~# grub-floppy /dev/fd0
xarbox:~# fdformat /dev/fd0
xarbox:~# mke2fs /dev/fd0
xarbox:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
xarbox:~# mkdir -p /media/floppy0/boot/grub
xarbox:~# touch /media/floppy0/boot/grub/{menu.lst,device.map}
xarbox:~# nano /media/floppy0/boot/grub/menu.lst
default 0
timeout 10
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Xarnoppix USB BOOT FLOPPY
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img
xarbox:~# nano /media/floppy0/boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sdb
# I have a SATA disk ( /dev/sda ) then USB device becomes /dev/sdb
xarbox:~# grub-install --root-directory=/media/floppy0 '(fd0)'
xarbox:~# umount /dev/fd0
xarbox:~# reboot
cu
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