Booting from a USB key

[Colin Charles]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:12, Dolf Starreveld wrote:
> My machine currently has RH9 installed, and I wanted to check out FC2 
> without wiping my installation. I have a USB key, and I figured I 
> might be able to set it up to boot with a newer kernel.

You can install it on a separate partition, and still use GRUB

Booting off a USB key will not be appropriate for you, as FC2 is large

> label FC2
> 	kernel FC2VVMZ
> 	append initrd=FC2IRD.img ramdisk_size=8192
> 
> the xxxVMZ files are copies of the respective vmlinuz files, the 
> xxxIRD.img are copies of the respective initrd.img files.

GRUB really can't find it

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