Booting linux on USB-sticks.

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:42:27PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 12:00:17 am Kurt Wall wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:

[no USB boot love]

> > > 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
> 
> It's a kernel, modules and an init script. This loads, before it loads the 
> normal stuff off the stick. What I don't understand is, why can it boot the 
> kernel in the inird, but not the kernel I put into /boot.

I know what an initrd is. What I'm asking is what modules are there in the
initrd that aren't in the kernel that's in /boot?

Kurt
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