Hey all. I have tried a bit of Google-fu but so far just getting articles about booting from either DVD or USB. In my case I kind of want to do both.
My laptop is an older beast, Pentium M 32bit aka Centrino. It is a whitebox unit made by Compal (not Compaq), model CL50, I have had it for many years and it runs Linux well. Only real problem with it, it cannot boot from USB. I have checked for updates to BIOS, it has the latest that was available for this motherboard. I have Linux Mint 13 on it, and want to do a fresh install of Mint 14. I have Mint 14 image on a USB drive, and the Mint 13 live DVD. I was hoping to find a way to boot the live DVD, then tell it to continue loading from the flash drive, so I can install. This would save having to burn more DVDs for each upgrade. I tried fiddling with the options the live DVD has, it does have an option to boot local disk, but that means hard drive. I would like to boot from USB flash drive. The syntax it uses is unfamiliar, I don't know if it is newer GRUB or it isn't GRUB at all. If possible I could use a SuperGRUB boot CD (pretty sure I have one, if not I could of course burn that). I just want to try to get off the treadmill of burning new DVDs for each release. If anyone has actually done this sort of thing I would appreciate pointers, otherwise I'll just keep digging probably in GRUB or Mint forums etc. Thanks. ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
