Rance Hall wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Joep L. Blom<[email protected]> wrote:
I haven't seen the last few years BIOS's that didn't support USB booting. I
use VMbox under Linux and yes I still have problems with permissions and I
know I' not the only one.
If anybody could give me all the directories for ehich the permissions have
to be right I would solve it in no time.
Joep
Joep:
I have seen a number of BIOSes that say they support usb booting but
in fact do not, they support some subset of usb booting.
like maybe only support usb-fdd and not usb-hdd
And according to H. Peter Anvin (author of isolinux, etc) There is a
wide variety of BIOS implementations out there when it comes to usb
boot support, and the inconsistency has caused the syslinux project
NOT to pursue usb booting officially yet (maybe ever)
I believe the same BIOS variety would impact vbox as well. They of
course write their own bios, but that makes vbox not as useful as a
testbed/dev platform when you know that what you can do in vbox you
cant do on any given real box.
As to your question about permissions on ubuntu
check into your udev configuration file. udev creates the device
nodes for usb devices as they are detected and udev can be configured
to make those device nodes with specified permissions so that they can
then be used by any given user/group.
I suggest you start there.
vbox on linux must run as the user that started vbox and with group
privs assigned to the vbox group.
fix udev to make new usb device nodes with at least read/write
user:group permissions, and owned by root:vbox
and that should fix your device permission problem.
HTH
Rance
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Rance, Thanks a lot!
I will do as you suggests an start looking at the udev configuration. I
never thought of that.
With respect to BIOS and USB boot possibilities, I must confess I only
have experience with MSI and ASUS MB's which come resp. with AWARD and
AMI BIOS's and both give no problem (I have used it on a5 year old MSI
board). I have no idea what other motherboard manufacturers put in their
products.
But thanks again. I will report the results here.
Joep
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