livecds in the future
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Nov 24 21:24:01 UTC 2009
Once upon a time, Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> said:
> Not that I actually believe in these systems that are i686 or newer and won't
> boot off of usb-storage devices, but if they were to exist, you wouldn't be
> able to do what you're saying on them.
I have run into such systems unfortunately.
> When the bootloader is running, it can only see devices BIOS provides to it.
Not true. See for example PXE-boot floppies. Google "USB boot cd", and
the first hit is how to boot an Ubuntu USB flash drive using a CD boot
loader. There are also floppy images to boot from USB.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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