booting from a USB drive should be fairly straightforward. set usb as a boot device in the BIOS, insert a preloaded flash drive and bobs your uncle
And setting up the flash drive is just a matter of installing to it from the CD. If you really did fry your ide controller you won't be able to fix it from software. On Dec 20, 2007 1:07 PM, Peter Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Toshiba A65 laptop hard drive failed and apparently took out the data > connections on the motherboard. A new hard drive is not recognized in the > BIOS. Question: Does anyone know of a fix using Ubuntu, such as: 1) booting > from CD with just enough Linux OS to mount the USB, then load and run Ubuntu > off the flash drive, or, 2) get the machine to boot directly from USB? Any > other suggestions? > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
