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Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?
Date 2019-07-23 20:30 +0200
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Le 23/07/2019 à 17:37, Martin McCormick a écrit :
> 
> 	It may turn out to be less of a headache to make it a
> duel-boot system.  One boot would be the latest debian console
> and the other would be Debian Wheezy

If the system on the USB drive is GNU/Linux, you just need to put /boot 
on the internal drive so that GRUB can load them.

> as I have some PIC
> microcontroller development tools that don't make in today's
> world.

Did you consider chroot instead of multiboot ?

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Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 05:00 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-23 05:10 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-07-23 05:40 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 07:20 +0200
    Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 17:40 +0200
      Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-07-23 18:40 +0200
      Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 20:30 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 20:40 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 23:40 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-25 19:40 +0200
          Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 20:20 +0200
            Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-25 21:30 +0200
              Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-26 04:30 +0200
                Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 09:50 +0200

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