Can you boot computers that have no capability to boot from usb, and have a broken optical drive? Or is this mainly just to boot a USB stick that is not supported by the computer to boot from?

On 01/01/2014 05:41 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Good question Jörn,

The USB chainloader works from USB.

I know Plop and have used it to boot USB via CD in old computers. I
tried to use Plop from USB. I could make it boot and run its menu, but I
was not able to boot another USB device from it, at least not with the
fairly modern hardware that I tested (for example professional class HP
laptops, the newest one with Intel i5).

Under the hood the USB chainloader is a stripped system based on Ubuntu
13.04. The grub bootloader and the boot directory is what is kept, and
the file grub.cfg is modified.

So I would say that the USB chainloader is a complement to Plop. I'd be
happy if you can help me boot from USB with Plop and chainload into
other USB devices, because it would make it easier to have only one tool
for these similar purposes.

Best regards
Nio

2014-01-01 11:33, Joern skrev:
What is the difference to Plop boot loader?

Am 01.01.2014 um 05:36 schrieb Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I just finished a little tool that helps boot some computers from
[other] USB boot drives - the Chainloader

The chainloader is useful for middle-aged computers, for example
computers without a CD/DVD drive, where it can be hard to boot from a
USB drive, or when you want to run from a fast USB 3 drive that is
unwilling to boot.

-o-

What is new, why a new tool? Isn't it enough to be able to use mkusb or
the other tools?

The answer is in this tutorial 'Howto help USB boot drives'

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2196858

-o-

Phill, can the compressed image file be uploaded to your server? Maybe
it is too small to have an own link or page. Maybe it can share a page
with mkusb. What do you think?

Best regards
Nio

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