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On 2/29/08, andrea <momesso.andrea@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: |
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> > When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD |
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> > number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or |
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> > /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events and connects the |
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> > USB device up through udev. |
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> > When it is attached at boot-time it does get one(!) because the BIOS |
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> > sees it before the OS has hooked in. |
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> > To accomplish this you probably need to boot from the CD while the USB |
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> > is attached. To me it seems risky, but possible. I wonder what will |
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> > happen when you disconnect the USB drive after booting is complete? |
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> No way. Even if booting from a livecd (and the usb disk is seen as |
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> (hd0,0) grub unstall still complain about missing BIOS driver. |
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> I also tried from the grub shell: |
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> grub> root (hd0,0) |
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> grub> setup (hd0) |
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> but at this point the program exits whit a segmentation fault message. |
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Well that's what I get for answering off-the-cuff :) Let us know if |
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you get a solution, I need it too! |
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