Booting linux on USB-sticks.

Mon Mar 9 14:54:42 PDT 2009

Does any one know why it's required to boot linux on a usb stick via initrd? 
I've been toying around with this and try as I may, I can't get either LILO 
or GRUB to boot linux directly from a USB sitck. However using the same exact 
kernel config, It'll boot just fine via initfs image via initrd...

It would seem to me, that if you can partition and format a usb stick,  then 
surely it should behave like a normal bootable media, without the need for 
the initd nonsense.

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