[OT] Run LiveUSB on machine that can't boot from usbkey?

[Tony Nelson]

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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