Booting linux on USB-sticks.

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
> 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.

What's in the initrd?

Kurt
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