Re: bootable usb

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:45:27 Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > dd < mini.iso > /dev/sda
> >
> > Does it boot from the USB key?
>
> It will, yes.
>
> > I thought the Hurd were still missing USB support?
>
> But grub isn't, and that's what matters here.

Uh, argl, argl… ARGH!

That means, I could have installed a Hurd on my OLPC all along!

The list of things I still need to use the Hurd for my everyday tasks just
shrunk by 33%: Only Wireless and Sound are missing (since I moved most of my
work on the OLPC into emacs anyway).

And Sound is secondary, while for much of my productive work WLAN can be
substituted with plugging the system-USB-stick into my main computer and
synchronizing my Mercurial repos.

*Gebetsmühle*
I have a test on Thursday, I must not install Hurd on my OLPC today.
*/Gebetsmühle*

Why didn’t I ever think of asking „can I boot Hurd from USB-stick“?

- Arne

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