Thanks for your suggestion. Have only time to read the linked data cursorily, but it seems to me this wouldn't be a workable solution for me:rcrsn51 wrote:Use ISObooter and the instructions on page 10. Change "initrd.gz" to "initrd.xz".otropogo wrote:Why - because, strangely, while you're allowed to save your save file to hdd when booting from the LiveCD, once you've installed to a flash device, you can only save your configurations and applications, and everything else you want to load at next boot, to the same USBflash device.
1. I want to avoid Grub altogether
2. I don't want to be loading the OS into RAM from a flash card every time I boot, or worse, running the OS from a flash card.
3. I don't want to be limited by the size of the flash card used to boot.
It seems to be a useful tool for portability, but I hardly ever use a different PC, so that doesn't offset any of these issues for me.
The system used in the lupu usbflash installation is much smaller and simpler. Basically, once you've set the USBflash card to boot from the hdd, it just runs , which finds the sfs and the save files on the hdds, and you can cofigure it to look at all the hard drives for the distro sfs or just in specific locations, and alter this at the boot prompt if needed.
It's not perfect, and could be easily improved, if someone took an interest. But it works.