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evilgold

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Registered: 2008-10-30

Posts: 120

boot USB from grub

I have a machine that doesnt support booting directly from a USB key, but i would like to boot the arch live USB key to install arch on my system. The machine is currently running ubuntu, and has grub set. I was wondering how i could get the grub on my system to load the usb key. Either by chainloading grub, or directly.

thanks

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: boot USB from grub

I'm not sure what you mean by "chainloading grub" but booting is a sequence process usually determined at the BIOS level, therefore, if your bios does not support USB boot you cannot really "boot" from  a USB...
I suppose you could do some sort of daisy-chain using grub to go from you HDD to your USB but ... that would be ultimately impractical since you would be forced to have the USB always plugged in in order to boot that system.

R.