[LinuxBIOS] Booting from USB

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 07:31:49 CET 2007


Vlad wrote:
> --- Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote: 
>   
>> FILO has support for USB, but unfortunately UHCI is broken and EHCI
>> is
>> unsupported.
>>     
>
> GRUB 2 is also supported as a LinuxBIOS payload now.[1] Can GRUB 2
> boot from USB?
>
> Vlad
>
> [1] http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-November/026636.html
>   

Afaics, no:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-04/msg00047.html
Yes, it's old, but it's the most relevent/recent thing the search picked
up. Grub/grub2 relies on the bios' USB support, it doesn't have its own
drivers.

-Corey




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