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How do I boot USB via boot floppy?

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Guy:
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

taz:

--- Quote from: ^thehatsrule^ on January 02, 2009, 04:35:03 PM ---TC's initrd is ~10M though, so it will not fit on a conventional floppy.  Perhaps there is a bootloader that supports reading off usb devices...?  In that case you could just change the .cfg for that to read the initrd off the usb device.

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You can use conventional floppies.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=5241.msg31539#msg31539

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: roberts on January 10, 2009, 12:08:43 AM ---Really only need two files, bzImage and tinycore.gz copies onto pendrive.

linld image=e:\bzimage initrd=e:\tinycore.gz "cl=quiet vga=788"

That's it, works fine for me. Note if you use the cl directly then enclose in quotes and space separate boot options.

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An alternative way which I would find handy especially with multiple boot parameters is to use a parameter file for cl options.

e.g. create a file called tc.par and in it list boot parameters one per line and then boot with

--- Code: ---linld image=e:\bzimage initrd=e:\tinycore.gz vga=788 cl=@tc.par
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Note: when creating such a file under Linux, it might be wise to convert it to DOS format, e.g. with 'unix2dos'.

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