Andrew Kane dixit: >A lot of these boxes are ones that one would reasonably expect to >support booting from USB, but in some cases the option isn't there in >the BIOS setup or boot menu and in others the option is there but is >ignored on boot some or all of the time. The inability to boot from a
Yeah, USB FDD works but not USB HDD, or something like that. I recently had one of these cases (on a modern VIA C7 system even!) and just threw the (Freeware, i.e. non-free in Debian terms) Plop bootmanager on a floppy disc and used it to boot the Grml USB stick: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html And neither my IBM X40 nor my employer's X61 can boot from SD card, despite having the drive built in. Sucks. bye, //mirabilos -- 16:47⎜«mika:#grml» .oO(mira ist einfach gut....) 23:22⎜«mikap:#grml» mirabilos: und dein bootloader ist geil :) 23:29⎜«mikap:#grml» und ich finds saugeil dass ich ein bsd zum booten mit grml hab, das muss ich dann gleich mal auf usb-stick installieren -- Michael Prokop über MirOS bsd4grml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsm.4.64l.1310260014300.14...@herc.mirbsd.org
