On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 21:18 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Btw here's my take on the boot from USB caper: > > There's a bunch of HP/Compaq boxes, none too old really but also none > hot off the press, at some place. All of the BIOSes in the boxes support > booting from USB. Does it work? ROTFL... Maybe with the very latest > models, but by far most of the time, it was a nice thought and a > complete waste of time. So in my own experience the number of boxes out > there which can actually boot from a USB storage device is too small to > bother. > > Volker >
Unlucky I think. My 8 year old windows locked in bios tosh will boot ubuntu off usb, with a bit of a tweak - saw it as another disk. Nobody was more surprised than me! Steve -- http://www.greengecko.co.nz
