No Mint 10 USB Boot

[Larry Webb]

I have an older pent 4 computer with 2 GHz of ram. The m/b does not support usb boot but does auto mount usb.

This usb does work, have checked out in notebook.

I boot it with grub and I get a splash screen with the moving dots and that is it.

Is there a way to check the boot log on a usb boot?

[saikee]

Where did you place your Grub?

As far as I know Grub does not keep a log.

If the mobo does not support USB boot then that would be the end of the story. Old PCs normally need the USB legacy support to switch on for booting a USB device.

[Larry Webb]

The problem is solved. I took the wrong usb stick this morning.

I have grub installed on the h/d, mutiboot with grub2 in a designated partition.

I chainload them with the grub on h/d. I also carry a live cd to demonstrate grub. The reason I use usb over cd is the ease of carrying and space of handling 3 or 4 distros and of course netbooks.

[Larry Webb]

I also forgot to ad that I did check the files on the wrong usb stick and it has all the right files, I need to work on it because it will not boot and I need to figure out.

[saikee]

I believe you can ask Grub2 in the h/d to boot the Linux installed or store in the USB disk.

In Grub2 prompt you can do

ls -l

and Grub2 will list every partition in every disk. If you can see the USB partition Grub2 can boot them.

[Larry Webb]

I did not know you could use the ls command in grub. Thank you for the information. I have always just guessed.

[yesca]

If the mobo does not support USB boot then that would be the end of the story.

I had to pop in and comment because of the success I had using "plop" to boot with USB on an old computer:

http://www.plop.at/en/home.html

You can use it on a floppy, install it on a drive, etc.

[saikee]

I did not know you could use the ls command in grub. Thank you for the information. I have always just guessed.

Grub2 does have some nice touch as it was not possible to view the directory in Grub1.

The "ls -l" in Grub is different to Linux kernel. It is good for the Grubs developers to use the same commands in Lunux for the same things in the boot loader.

Old version of Grub1 cannot see the USB disks unless it has been arranged as (hd0) by the Bios. Later versions of Grub1 seem to have this restriction removed. AFAIK Grub2 reads the USB disks and reports them as normal block devices. If Grub can see the disk and its partitions then Grub should be able to boot it. It doesn't matter where Grub originates from a floppy, a CD, a DVD or from an internal hard disk.

[Larry Webb]

It doesn't matter where Grub originates from a floppy, a CD, a DVD or from an internal hard disk.

Yes I that is right, if you can get to the grub prompt you have it made.