[NTLUG:Discuss] Booting from a USB Flash Drive? ( 64Meg - $9.99 at Fry's )

[terry]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:56:21 -0600, Steve Baker wrote:
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>>Jack Snodgrass wrote:
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>>>Anyone know if it's possible... ( not just theory ) but actually
>>>possible to boot from a USB Flash Drive? I picked up a linksys
>>>64Meg Flash Drive from Fry's ( $9.99 after a $20 rebate ) and 
>>>was hoping to be able to boot my PC with it, but it didn't seem 
>>>to work. Do ANY motherboards support this? 
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>>We use these flash drives a lot at work - they've come to
>>replace floppy disks and CD-R's for a lot of work.
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>>However, we've noticed that there are two distinct types - one
>>of which seems to work with Linux out of the box and the other
>>of which seems to require large amounts of complicated tweaking
>>to get it accepted.
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>>I got lucky and bought the Cig at r which works as a mountable drive
>>out of the box.  (Although I've never tried booting from it)
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>>Given this, it wouldn't suprise me to find that devices of the
>>second kind might not work with some motherboards that claim to
>>offer USB boot capabilities.
>>---------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------
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>   I got the Linksys one SPECIFICALLY because it was supposed to work 
>with Linux. I had read that some USB Flash Drives said that you 
>could not have them attached to the system when you booted. That would 
>make it hard to boot from. ;) The linksys one seems to be ok when you
>boot, but my motherboard won't use it to boot. With RedHat 8.0 and 
>the linksys USB drive, you just plug it in and you get /dev/sda with 
>a fat-16 /dev/sda1 drive.
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>jack 
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I use Uno.  Works well under Linux.

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