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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

BL predates USB flash drives and was therefore not designed to boot from 
them.  The 2-floppy version does not have USB support.  (It also will not 
boot from a SATA drive, or in a computer where there is a SATA drive 
unless maybe you disable it in BIOS).

David Moberg provided a 1-floppy BL that recognizes USB devices.
Maybe it can be made to boot from flash drive?
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/usbfloppy/1440-mouse-printer.img
(I think).  Burn it to a floppy.

I created usbcam8.gz, an 8MB BL with an svga-based viewer that works on 
desktops and very old laptops (and I think the same kernel) that I can 
copy to a partition on a camera flash card.  Boot with the floppy, chroot 
to the BL partition on the flash card, and with the camera plugged into a 
desktop computer with monitor, view photos.  If you get the 1-floppy usb 
BL to boot, you can probably also get camera linux to boot directly.

You sound quite experienced.  Can you bring BL into the modern world by 
compiling a 2.6 kernel and modules for it, updating glibc to at least 2.10 
(requires the newer kernel), adding gtk2, and getting Opera 12.16 or 
Firefox 17 and flash to work?

Sindi

On Tue, 27 May 2014, Victor Akinyemi wrote:

> I downloaded the bl3-50fd.zip file and booted it with Bochs, it
> worked. Then, using bximage, i created a 2GB disk image and used it as
> the hard disk, then i used fdisk and mke2fs to partition and convert
> the partition to the ext2 filesystem. Then i ran install-to-hd. It
> successfully installed. Then i installed LILO to the disk image
> (following the instructions provided after completing setup), and my
> lilo.conf file includes the prompt command (so i'd be able to
> "root=/dev/sdb1" to boot the USB stick). Using PowerISO i wrote the
> image to the stick, then i booted it. It shows "LI" then hangs, no
> matter what i do. Does anybody know the solution to this prob?