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<h3>Booting eLua from an USB stick</h3>
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<p>This is follow up of <a href="tut_bootpc.html">this tutorial</a>.
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After completing it you'll be able to boot <b>eLua</b> directly from your USB
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stick (provided, of course, that your computer can boot from an USB
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stick, which is true for most computers nowadays). You might want to
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check the <a href="tut_bootpc.html">boot your PC in eLua</a>
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tutorial first for more details. If you have an old USB stick that you
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don't use anymore, and/or the shear geekness of this idea makes you
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feel curious, this tutorial is definitely for you :)</p>
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<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
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<p><strong>As mentioned <a href="tut_bootpc.html">here</a>,
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the code won't try to access any kind of storage (HDD, CDROM, floppy),
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not even for reading, so you don't need to worry about that. Also it
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doesn't try to reprogram your video card registers, so it can't harm it
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or your monitor. It only implements a "protected mode keyboard driver"
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that can't physically damage anything in your system. In short, I made
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every effort to make the code as harmless as possible. I tested it on 5
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different computers and in 2 <a htarget="_blank" ref="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a>
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emulators, and nothing bad happened. That said, there are no warranties
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of any kind. In the very unlikely event that something bad does happen
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to your system, you have my sincere sympathy, but I can't be held
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responsible for that. Also, I can't be held responsible if you mess up
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your HDD by failing the GRUB installation procedure (even though, once
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again, this shouldn't be possible unless you really insist on messing
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it up). If you're new to computers or Linux, this tutorial might not be for you.
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Your call.</strong></p>
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<h2>Prerequisites</h2>
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<p>To have your own bootable <b>eLua</b> USB stick you'll need:
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<ul><li>an USB stick. I tested this on an 128M USB stick, because
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it's the smallest I could find. You should be OK with a 4M stick or
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even a 2M stick</li>
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<li>a computer running Linux. I use Ubuntu, but any other distribution is fine.</li>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">GRUB</a>.
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Since you're running Linux, chances are you're already using GRUB as
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your bootloader. If not, you must install it on your HDD, or at least
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know how to install it directly on the USB stick. I won't go into
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details here, google it and you'll find lots of good articles about
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GRUB. This tutorial assumes that you're using GRUB as your bootloader.</li>
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<li>The <b>eLua</b> i386 ELF file, see <a href="downloads.html">here</a> for instructions on how to obtain it. OR <a href="downloads.html">download the eLua source distribution</a> and compile it
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for the i386 architecture using a toolchain that you can build by following <a href="tc_386.html">this tutorial</a>.</li>
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<li>a text editor to edit your GRUB configuration file.</li></ul></p>
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<p>The rest of this tutorial assumes that you're using Linux with GRUB,
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and that GRUB is located in <i>/boot/grub</i>, which is true for many Linux
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distributions.</p>
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<h2>Backup your stick</h2>
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<p>Since the stick is going to be formatted, make sure to backup the
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data from your stick first (you can copy it back after finishing the
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tutorial).</p>
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<h2>Partition and format your stick</h2>
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<p>Depending on your stick, this step might not be required, but
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chances are you'll need to re-partition and re-format your stick before
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installing GRUB on it. The problem is that many sticks have a very
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creative, non-standard partition table, and GRUB doesn't like that. I
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looked at the original partition table of my <b>eLua</b> USB stick and it scared me to
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death, so I had to follow this procedure. In short, you'll need to
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delete all the partitions from your stick, create a new partition, and
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then format it. For a step by step tutorial check <a target="_blank" href="http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/suse9.1_usb_stick.html">here</a>.</p>
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<h2>Install GRUB on your stick</h2>
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<p>First, mount your freshly formatted stick (I'm going to assume that the mount directory is <i>/mnt</i>):</p>
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<p><pre><code>$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt<br></code></pre></p>
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<p>(of course, you'll need to change <i>/dev/sda1</i> to reflect the physical location of your USB stick. You should know the physical location from the previous step).
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Then copy the required GRUB files to your stick:</p>
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<p><pre><code>$ cd /mnt
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$ mkdir boot
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$ mkdir boot/grub
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$ cd /boot/grub
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$ cp stage1 fat_stage1_5 stage2 /mnt/boot/grub</code></pre></p>
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<p>Copy the <b>eLua</b> ELF file (<i>elua_lua_i386.elf</i> in this example, change the name if needed) to the GRUB directory as well:</p>
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<p><pre><code>$ cp elua_lua_i386.elf /mnt/boot/grub</code></pre></p>
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<p>Create a <i>menu.lst</i> file for GRUB with you favorite text editori (I'm using vim):</p>
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<p><pre><code>$ cd /mnt/boot/grub
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$ vim menu.lst
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title eLua
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root (hd0,0)
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kernel /boot/grub/elua_lua_i386.elf
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boot</code></pre></p>
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<p>Now it's time to actually install GRUB on the stick.</p>
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<p><pre><code>$ sudo -s -H
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# grub
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<b>Now we need to find the GRUB name of our USB stick. We'll use the "find" command from
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GRUB and our eLua ELF file to accomplish this:</b>
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grub> find /boot/grub/elua_lua_i386.elf
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(hd2,0)
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<b>GRUB should respond with a single line (like (hd2,0) above). If it gives you more
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than one line, something is wrong. Maybe you also installed eLua on your HDD? If so,
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delete the /boot/grub/elua_lua_i386.elf file from your HDD and try again.
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You might get a different (hdx,y) line. If so, just use it instead of (hd2,0) in the
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rest of this tutorial</b>.
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grub> root (hd2,0)
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grub> setup (hd2)
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Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
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Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
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Checking if "/boot/grub/fat_stage1_5" exists... yes
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Running "embed /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 (hd2)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
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succeeded
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Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd2) (hd2)1+15 p (hd2,0)/boot/grub/stage2
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/boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
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Done.
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grub> quit</code></pre></p>
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<p>That's it! Now reboot your computer, make sure that your BIOS is set
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to boot from USB, and enjoy! See <a href="using.html">using eLua</a> for
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instructions on how to use your new toy :).</p>
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<p>As usual, if you need more details, you can <a href="overview.html#contacts">contact us</a>.</p>
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