Boot from memory-stick?

[Paul Howarth]

Fritz Whittington wrote:
> On or about 2005-07-25 03:45, Paul Howarth whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
> 
>> Monkey Pet wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to figure out booting from a USB memory stick also. 
>>> Basically, I have installed linux and don't want to put grub on the
>>> MBR since I have a dell laptop and don't want to blow alway the
>>> recovery utilities, etc.  I am currently booting into linux using a CD
>>> created by the mkbootdisk program.  I want to be able to do the same
>>> thing, but put it on the usb memory stick.  What would be idea is just
>>> to put grub on the memory stick and be able to point it to the hd to
>>> do the actual booting.  I know my bios supports booting off the memory
>>> stick.
>>
>>
>>
>> When you installed Fedora, did you install grub on the boot/root 
>> partition (rather than the MBR)? If so, you could install grub on any 
>> other device (memory stcik, floppy etc.) and use an entry like this:
>>
>> title Fedora Core
>>         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>         chainloader +1
>>
>> (where (hd0,1) is the partition grub is installed on)
>>
>> to boot Fedora.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> An even better solution requires no extra floppies, CD's or even a USB 
> memory stick.  Just install GRUB on the BR of the boot *partition* (not 
> in the MBR), copy the usual boot loader code from the partition, install 
> it on the C: drive as a file, and add the option to your C:\boot.ini 
> file.  Easy instructions are at:
> http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47038.html
> 
> I use this myself under Windows 2000 to boot Linux, and it works great.

Fine if you're dual-booting with Windows (and if so, using bootpart 
[http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm] makes the procedure even easier), 
but the OP didn't mention that - just that he didn't want to blow away 
the recovery utilities etc.

Paul.