FC5 boot off of external usb box : works fine

[LarryT]

Have update my doc-page ---> 
http://www.brothersofnet.freesurf.fr/sans_popup/fc5/fc5-usb-boot.htm
FC5 boot off of usb external box.
Have customized few initrd, like one can see at the very end of the page.
Happy if it could help someone :)
Larry

Specification : spacialy for motherboard that cant boot off of usb 
nativly. Booting from dos .... have a look if you are interesting.
This is the only way to boot, for me !

Larry

LarryT wrote:
> Thx Jonathan,
> but this doesn't work for all external box. :(
> I first tried, but have to do what i explained of the link ...
> 
> Jonathan Berry wrote:
>> On 3/21/06, LarryT <guess.who at freesurf.fr> wrote:
>>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>> Larry tb wrote:
>>>>> Make a kind of doc there :
>>>>> http://www.brothersofnet.freesurf.fr/sans_popup/fc5/fc5-usb-boot.htm
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks! I'll give it a shot. There has to be an easier way!
>>> Hi Jim,
>>> did you find some easier way about this ?
>>> Gonna give it a try with the new fc5 ...
>>
>> Uhh, yeah, there is an easier way than editing the raw initrd.  I
>> don't remember the command off-hand, but you can run mkinitrd with
>> some extra modules as options (probably the same ones added by hand in
>> the  above).  Here you go, here is the writeup I did a while back for
>> FC4:
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg02452.html
>> The mkinitrd command is under step 8.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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