Request: boot rescue environment from USB key

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:19 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 22:57 -0500, Philippe Rigault wrote:
> > If one wants to boot Fedora Core from a USB key (using diskboot.img from the 
> > images directory), it is currently only possible to run the installer, but 
> > not a rescue environment. 
> > 
> > It would be very helpful to be able to boot a rescue environment from an USB 
> > key.
> > 
> > Is that doable easily ? 
> 
> I'm reasonably certain that if you boot the diskboot.img with 'rescue'
> as a boot option, you'll get a rescue environment.  In fact, I just
> tested it and it does work. 

it only works if your USB device uses a partition table. The USB devices
that don't use a partition table do not work in this way.
At least that's my experience from last week trying to rescue my
firewall from a dead disk