USB Memory Key booting

[Eric W. Biederman]

Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:

> Antony Stone wrote:
> 
> > The Bios of anything I've seen in the past 12-18 months has been capable of
> > booting from USB-IDE, USB-CD, USB-Floppy and USB-Zip
> > The solid state flash drives behave exactly like USB-IDE as far as what
> > they're plugged into is concerned - just like Compact Flash cards vs. normal
> > IDE drives.
> >
> 
> Hmmm... I guess I need to look at a current BIOS, I must have overlooked it.
> 
> Anyway, any idea how much work it would be to get linuxbios to be able to read
> the USB-IDE?

I don't think there is USB-IDE.  I think the stack looks like USB-SCSI.

The challenge is that the USB stack is fairly tall.

We should be able to incorporate a version of that into etherboot or FILO.

I don't think we want a version of that in the core of LinuxBIOS, but
I can be surprised.


Eric