On 2/29/08, andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote:
>
> > When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD
> > number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or
> > /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events and connects the
> > USB device up through udev.
> >
> > When it is attached at boot-time it does get one(!) because the BIOS
> > sees it before the OS has hooked in.
> >
> > To accomplish this you probably need to boot from the CD while the USB
> > is attached. To me it seems risky, but possible. I wonder what will
> > happen when you disconnect the USB drive after booting is complete?
>
> No way. Even if booting from a livecd (and the usb disk is seen as
> (hd0,0) grub unstall still complain about missing BIOS driver.
>
> I also tried from the grub shell:
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> setup (hd0)
> but at this point the program exits whit a segmentation fault message.
>
Well that's what I get for answering off-the-cuff :) Let us know if
you get a solution, I need it too!
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