On Mon,15.Feb.10, 23:47:44, Chris Jones wrote: > What I did on my machine with a BIOS that will never recognize USB > devices, was boot off of the hard drive grub and then point grub2 to the > USB device from the shell that's accessible by hitting 'c' on the grub > boot menu. > > With current versions of grub-pc, you have to load the two USB modules > manually, which on my hardware takes for ever. But when you see the USB > light come on, you know you're in business. I use this little script to make a bootable CD-RW. The menu.lst is setup with root=LABEL= ,----[ boot-on-cdrw.sh ] | #!/bin/sh | | set -e | | TMP_ROOT=/tmp/iso | TMP_IMAGE=/tmp/boot-on-cdrw.iso | | # copy the curent /boot to a temporary location | mkdir $TMP_ROOT | cp -ra /boot $TMP_ROOT | | # add stage2 if needed | if ! [ -f $TMP_ROOT/boot/grub/stage2_eltorito ] ; then | cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito $TMP_ROOT/boot/grub/ | fi | | # create the bootable image | # all parameters to genisoimage are copy-pasted from the grub manual | genisoimage -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \ | -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o $TMP_IMAGE $TMP_ROOT | | # burn the image, assume cdrw media | wodim -v -sao -eject blank=fast $TMP_IMAGE | | # clean-up | rm -rf $TMP_ROOT | rm -f $TMP_IMAGE `---- Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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