Fritz Whittington wrote:
On or about 2005-07-25 03:45, Paul Howarth whipped out a trusty #2
pencil and scribbled:
Monkey Pet wrote:
I am trying to figure out booting from a USB memory stick also.
Basically, I have installed linux and don't want to put grub on the
MBR since I have a dell laptop and don't want to blow alway the
recovery utilities, etc. I am currently booting into linux using a CD
created by the mkbootdisk program. I want to be able to do the same
thing, but put it on the usb memory stick. What would be idea is just
to put grub on the memory stick and be able to point it to the hd to
do the actual booting. I know my bios supports booting off the memory
stick.
When you installed Fedora, did you install grub on the boot/root
partition (rather than the MBR)? If so, you could install grub on any
other device (memory stcik, floppy etc.) and use an entry like this:
title Fedora Core
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
(where (hd0,1) is the partition grub is installed on)
to boot Fedora.
Paul.
An even better solution requires no extra floppies, CD's or even a USB
memory stick. Just install GRUB on the BR of the boot *partition* (not
in the MBR), copy the usual boot loader code from the partition, install
it on the C: drive as a file, and add the option to your C:\boot.ini
file. Easy instructions are at:
http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47038.html
I use this myself under Windows 2000 to boot Linux, and it works great.
Fine if you're dual-booting with Windows (and if so, using bootpart
[http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm] makes the procedure even easier),
but the OP didn't mention that - just that he didn't want to blow away
the recovery utilities etc.
Paul.
