[Question] How to boot Elive from USB?

[doody]

Hi,

I've just gotten my copy of Elive Gem in order to test it out on the
Asus Eee PC. If you guys don't already know, the Asus Eee PC does not
have a CD/DVD drive. Hence, how can I go about modifying isolinux to
syslinux so that I can boot it up from a USB thumbdrive? I've tried
some simple edits but I'm still getting nowhere.

[duglia]

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ may help?

[Thanatermesis]

The EeePC version of Elive is perfectly supported since 1.7, if you
want a installer you would need to wait a bit more because its not
totally ready

Since 1.7, Elive supports boot from USB devices too, so, you can boot
the EeePC with Elive 1.7, just format a partition of 700 mb in ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, or also fat32, copy the contents of the ISO of Elive
1.7 (note: mount the partition with -o dev option, so: "mount -o dev /
dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1" ), and install grub on the USB stick, for
example, if your usb stick is the device /dev/sdb, and the partition
where the contents are is /dev/sdb1, you need to run something like
(better from the same version of Elive, so do it in other computer):

grub-install --recheck --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/sdb1 /
dev/sdb"

It exactly do: install grub on the mbr of the usb stick (sdb), using
the grub data from the mounted partition in /media/sdb1

There's some bad USB-sticks hardware called "U3", do not buy this crap
or you can't boot it, in any case, the correct way to boot it is
pressing the key ESC on your EeePC just after to turn ON the laptop

Enjoy it !