> Has any one had success booting Linux from USB devices? If so, which > boot loader and Linux distribution? I use Flonix on my USB keychain. It's a 50MB image file booted by syslinux. > Puppy Linux 0.8.5 (released April 20th) uses syslinux to boot from > flash. When booting it displays the single line > SYSLINUX 2.08 2003-12-12 > and hangs at that point. There is no indication that either the > kernel or initrd even started to load. Try reinstalling syslinux, you can do this either from linux or DOS. syslinux /dev/sda1 OR syslinux E: > flash-puppy install simply removes all files from a flash device > (FAT16) and copies the kernel (vmlinuz) and initrd (image.gz - > entire distribution as a loop mounted ext2 filesystem in RAM). Most are this way. Anyone know if you can format a USB keychain as an other fs, such as ext3? > default vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz > append ramdisk_size=55296 PSLEEP=25 PHOME=sda1 PROOTFS=umsdos PKEYS=us Looks pretty standard. > I suspect that syslinux doesn't support all USB devices or perhaps > there's something wrong with the syslinux.cfg. Any suggestions? The BIOS takes care of that. If the BIOS will boot off a USB drive, the system treats it like a floppy disk. > I'm thinking about using a different boot loader to boot Puppy Linux > from USB flash. Any suggestions? (I've heard that Puppy Linux 0.8.4 > uses grub for booting from USB flash.) Never tried another boot loader. Syslinux has always worked, I'm wondering if it just corrupted during install. -Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list