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Old 01-18-2008, 08:49 AM
John Thompson
 
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Default Re: Booting from USB HDD without BIOS support

On 2005-06-14, Stephan Keil <Stephan.Keil@gmx.de> wrote:

> My approach was more like installing a Linux kernel with builtin
> USB-drivers on the CD. But actually I would prefer to not install my
> "production kernel" on the CD but some kind of "boot only" kernel. Is it
> possible to "swap" the kernel after booting?


No, not rally. But you don't really need to swap the kernel; just change
the root filesystem from something on the CD or on a ramdisk to the
filesystem on the USB HD once the system's up and running.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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