Boot from HD & root USB [Solved]

jeanfrancis · Last edited by jeanfrancis on Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi there!

I searched in the forums and in the wiki, but I can't find one part of what I want to do

I have a laptop here who doesn't support USB booting. So, I have a boot partition with Grub.

I want to install a Linux distro on a USB hard drive. As my BIOS doesn't support the USB Boot, I know that I can boot it from my existing grub, but I'm not sure how.

I will put the kernel on my existing boot partition.

Do I have to use initramfs with some USB drivers? (I don't know how it works). Are the kernel USB & SATA drivers are sufficient, so I only would have to pass root=/dev/sda1 or something similar?

I hope I'm not duplicating a thread... if yes I didn't find it

Thanks!

jeanfrancis · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

Got it to work passing the following to the kernel: