Request: boot rescue environment from USB key

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:11 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 08:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > it only works if your USB device uses a partition table. The USB devices
> > that don't use a partition table do not work in this way.
> > At least that's my experience from last week trying to rescue my
> > firewall from a dead disk 
> 
> Hrm, how else would you use the diskboot.img?  I always just backup the
> contents of my usb key, then dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdX  where X is
> my usb fob.  Works for me every time...

you can do better ;)

copy vmlinuz/initrd.img from the rescue image
syslinux that to the disk, with proper syslinux.cfg
then cp the rest of the iso to the usb stick as well
and .. voila. Ought to work.. except for the case where anaconda can't
deal with usb sticks without partition table