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Posted: April 09 2007,09:05 QUOTE
Quote (curaga @ April 09 2007,03:45)
here's an example where you put them in c:\grub:

title DSL from usb
root (hd0,0)
kernel /grub/linux24 fromusb
initrd /grub/minirt24.gz

Now that is what I call a helpful post =)
Everyone just assumes I´ve had a few years experience with this when they write comments..

I'm going to try that with DSL, does it matter if I put another kind of linux on my usb key?
As far as I understand it, Im loading a kernel, wich I keep throughout from this procedure? Or does it just get discarded when starting to load from usb?
If so I could just do a standard installation to bring with me.
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Posted: April 09 2007,09:38 QUOTE
Ok, I adjusted that to work with MiniMe (PCLinuxOS)
And a majority of the stuff loads, but it complains about not finding the LiveCD and it looks at /dev/hdc
(and I don't know if that's the usb) This computer only has one harddrive and partition.
Is it likely that is the USB disk, and do I need to copy more files to drive than initrd and vmlinuz?
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Posted: April 09 2007,12:03 QUOTE
Yep, that loads the kernel which you keep, and then the files from usb.
Probably you can boot only Knoppix and DSL on those, other distros may or may not work.

hdc means Ide second channel master (so that cannot be usb, it's your cd drive)
Usb is most probably /dev/sda1...

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Posted: April 09 2007,19:44 QUOTE
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Yep, that loads the kernel which you keep, and then the files from usb.
Probably you can boot only Knoppix and DSL on those, other distros may or may not work.

hdc means Ide second channel master (so that cannot be usb, it's your cd drive)
Usb is most probably /dev/sda1...

Ok, then I did the right thing switching to the distro I liked.
How can I tell it to point to the USB, what file would I edit?

It does go through the USB devices on boot, so I would assume that part worked alright.
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Posted: April 10 2007,15:20 QUOTE
You mean you now have DSL? I have no idea about PCLinuxOs...
DSL should load properly with the codes you already have in menu.lst....

But if you installed DSL by a zip image from pendrivelinux, no idea either...

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