On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:32:01 -0400 Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:11:37PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:51 -0400 > > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This old laptop's BIOS only lets me boot off of a floppy/CD-ROM/hard > > > drive. > > > > > > Is there any way I could boot off of a USB flash drive - as in booting > > > off of a floppy or the hard drive and switching to /dev/sda when the > > > time comes to load the kernel? > > > > Perhaps Smart Boot Manager could help? > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ > > http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm > > Useful .. but I'm pretty sure a boot loader can only go by what the > BIOS is telling .. so I'm not hopeful. It's been a while since I played with SMB, and I never used it that heavily, but IIUC, the system boots from the floppy, and then the SMB code turns over control to a system on some other medium. I don't see that BIOS limitations are necessarily relevant. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
