[OT] Run LiveUSB on machine that can't boot from usbkey?
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Aug 30 03:20:25 UTC 2009
On 09-08-29 12:06:07, Mike Cloaked wrote:
>
> I have an old laptop that I use for testing new versions of Fedora -
> however although it will boot of a physical CD containing a LiveCD
> (say of F12 Alpha), it is old enough not to be able to boot off usb
> devices since the BIOS is not arranged to do so. So a usbkey that
> contains a LiveCD that works perfectly well on other machines won't
> play on this particular machine (Fijitsu-Siemens Amilo D 6800)
>
> Can anyone point me to a reference to work around this by booting off
> say an altered grub stansa in the HD which then refers to a plugged
> in usbkey to continue loading the LiveCD files from the usbkey? Or
> something similar?
...
Google "grub usb boot" and you'll probably be lucky.
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