From: BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: USB device not seen by grub
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:45:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B17CEFA.9090602@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091202202646.GD23641@turki.gavron.org>
Chris Jones wrote:
> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick.
>
> I issued the following command from the grub command line:
>
> % insmod uhci
>
> grub was hung and I had to do a hard reset.
>
> Is this to be expected, considering that this is a fairly old system and
> the BIOS knows nothing about USB devices.
>
> Thanks,
>
> CJ
>
>
> _______________________________________________
If your BIOS on the computer does not support booting from USB devices
then you probably got the correct result. :-)
You might check to see if there is a newer bios for your motherboard
that does support USB booting, but if not, I can't see how you could
ever get it to work!
Regards,
Pat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-03 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-02 20:26 USB device not seen by grub Chris Jones
2009-12-03 14:45 ` BandiPat [this message]
2009-12-03 15:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-03 18:01 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-03 20:02 ` Duboucher Thomas
2009-12-03 20:27 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-03 20:43 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-03 20:24 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-03 21:04 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-03 22:25 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-03 22:52 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-04 0:24 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-04 1:45 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-05 2:26 ` [solved] " Chris Jones
2009-12-05 2:58 ` richardvoigt
2009-12-05 4:29 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-05 9:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-11 0:45 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-23 7:03 ` Chris Jones
2009-12-04 0:27 ` richardvoigt
2009-12-04 21:36 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-04 22:17 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-05 3:28 ` richardvoigt
2009-12-05 20:22 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-04 22:45 ` richardvoigt
2009-12-05 20:33 ` Robert Millan
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