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bug #32612: GRUB 2 should have the ability to boot from a Unix OS

Submitter:  dE <de_logics>
Submitted:  Sun 27 Feb 2011 03:14:51 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  2 Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  1.98
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  2.03+

Wed 23 Mar 2011 04:24:50 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I'll try it out.

 dE <de_logics>
Wed 23 Mar 2011 03:52:06 PM UTC, comment #3: 

GRUB does support USB HID. But apparently you use outdated version.

 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Wed 23 Mar 2011 02:34:59 PM UTC, comment #2: 

It does not appear to work on the motherboard.

Also grub will not support USB HID from a switch... booting from a live OS will solve all such problems.

 dE <de_logics>
Wed 23 Mar 2011 11:39:49 AM UTC, comment #1: 


> Many motherboards don't boot from a USB/external drive; they wont even supply power to them, as a result all boot managers fail to work (they don't see the device at all..).

GRUB has own USB drivers available after loading them manually (insmod uhci/insmod ohci)

 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Sun 27 Feb 2011 03:14:51 PM UTC, original submission:  

Many motherboards don't boot from a USB/external drive; they wont even supply power to them, as a result all boot managers fail to work (they don't see the device at all..).

The solution to this problem is booting a live OS, running grub on in to set the root device, kernel etc... and booting directly from that OS after shutting it down abruptly (this wont impact if a live CD is used, and grub might show a warning before doing this).

 dE <de_logics>

 

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