Boot Amithlon from USB keychain drive?

[AmigaHeretic]

Just wondering if anyone has or knows if it is possible to boot Amithlon from one of those USB keychain drives?  I know you can boot from them if your motherboard supports it, but I wanted to see if anyone had tried it with Amithlon or knew anything about why it might or might not work.

Thanks!

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

My idea was to still have the AmigaOS system on my HD, but just to boot Amithlon from the keychain.   This way of starting Amithlon would be more preferable to me then using the CD or trying to set it up on a seperate harddrive partition.  

Then maybe I'd just wire the keychain up inside the computer case so that it sort of becomes an Amiga motherboard  Same thing would probably be possible by making some sort of ROM that I could hack on to the motherboard, but this way would be easier and easier to update if necessary.

It would be cool to make a customised ramdisk image and have the whole thing on the key chain, or better if there was USB support so you could just use the keychain as a drive after Amithlon started up.

But for now I just want to have Amithlon boot from the USB drive and then have the Amiga HD take over from there.

AmigaGuy

[AmigaHeretic]

Can't you junt install Amithlon on a hard drive partition and dual boot using grub?  

I could, but I think if you set up a partition to boot from, then you have to set up the rest of the HD as a virtual Amiga drive or some such.

Plus, I think I would be cool to just be able to plug the key in to my USB hub when I want to boot into AmigaOS and take it out to boot into XP.  It would be easy to update or change things and if I can setup a custom ram disk of my OS setup, I could take it with me where ever I go!

AmigaGuy