Booting Fedora from inside windows

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 20:07 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> Is there a way to boot a real OS on a windows box (without using a VM)?
> 
> I'm looking for a way to boot Fedora on a hostile windows XP box. The 
> windows box is locked down with a BIOS password, won't boot a CD, 
> disabled usb ports, and no way for me to install any windows programs.

Short answer: not without cracking the BIOS password, pulling the BIOS
chip and replacing it, or similar drastic measures. I assume it can't
boot from the network either, given that everything else is locked down.

> I 
> believe the Ubuntu thing that runs Linux from windows requires the 
> installation of a windows program, so it won't work in this environment.

AFAIK the Ubuntu "thing" just uses a Linux filesystem image mapped into
a Windows file (so you can play with it without reformatting your disk).
It's not running under Windows.

poc