hbrhodes wrote: > hey i think i have a thread on this before ... if not recently. but i > had to ask my question too. i'm having extreme difficulty making a boot > disk. i've tried doing it from my linux computer and using rawrite from > the wife's which has WinXP. none of the computers will boot from the > usb pen drive. i have the system bios set up to do so, but it won't > work. SO.... i ask the topic question: > > is there a way to have grub boot to my computer upstairs? i want the > computer to boot into the folder with the FC5 files ... or a folder with > the iso image of FC5. i have NFS turned on upstairs. the host / server > (really a client which serves as a dumping ground) is downstairs. > > they are both amd 1600+ athlons. both are using FC5. > > 192.168.100.102 (upstairs) this is the one i have the image iso on. > 192.168.100.101 (downstairs) this is the one i want to install too. > > NFS is on, firewall is off (router serves that function), and exports > and hosts are set up. everything should work! but i don't know how to > edit grub.conf ... > > thanks > > hbrhodes > You could take a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Diskless and use the pxeboot image. I have not done it, but it should work. Now, as far as the USB image goes, one thing you can try is to reformat and re-partition the pen drive so it has one FAT16 partition. Then try writing the USB boot image to the FAT16 partition instead of the entire drive. I did that here, and it booted fine. If your pen drive is sda, then you would do something like "dd if=/dev/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda1". See if your system likes that better. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
