Booting from a usb key fob

Stephen Mah smah at vmware.com
Mon Nov 7 17:53:39 UTC 2005


You can also modify the images/diskboot.img to kickstart off your network.
just mount the file as a loop device. ie: mount -o loop diskboot.img 
loop_directory.
and then modify your syslinux.cfg filie.

-steve

LAWRENCE.SORRILLO at HAMPTONU.EDU wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I am also interested in some of the stop you took to accomplish
>this...especially preloading the drivers.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
>Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 11:00 AM
>To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>Subject: Re: Booting from a usb key fob
>
>  
>
>> 
>>I remember a brief discussion on this not too long ago.
>>I have formatted and loaded a 256 MB with the first release cdrom but
>>    
>>
>I
>  
>
>>cannot get it to be booted from.
>>
>>Can someone point me to the right location for instructions on this?
>>
>>I am loading RHEL3 update6
>>
>>    
>>
>I've successfully run kickstart from USB keys with EL4. Haven't tried
>EL3, but
>it was fairly straightforward ...
>
>I made an disk image file the same way one would make a cramfs image
>file,
>making sure to put 'ldlinux.sys' (install the syslinux RPM on your build
>machine) on it. From there, it was easy enough to just dump it to
>/dev/sda (my
>USB key) using 'dd'.
>
>If EL3 makes sure to preload its drivers properly, I think the process
>should
>be fairly straightforward.
>
>I can privately pass along some of the build steps I use to make it go,
>if
>you're interested.
>
>Klaus
>
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