Boot From Other Device Possible?

[paolo]

let's suppose one connects a usb-something (external dvd player, floppy, pendrive) with a bootable OS capable of working with pandora, would it work?

 

[Spray190]

well its already been discussed in relation to booting from an sd card so it should be possible to boot from a usb device as well

 

[sindbad]

There's no reason it wouldn't work, but why?

 

[Squidge]

USB is doubtful, due to the work and drivers that it requires. Booting from an SD card in comparison is childs play.

 

[belthos]

USB is doubtful, due to the work and drivers that it requires. Booting from an SD card in comparison is childs play.

In that case could you make a SD boot disk that caused it to boot from an external usb device, something along the lines of grub maybe.

Belthos.

 

[Squidge]

The easiest way would be to put a kernel on a SD card, boot from that, and then that boots the file system from a usb device.