On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:40:00PM EDT, Rob Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:15 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > This old laptop's BIOS only lets me boot off of a floppy/CD-ROM/hard > > drive. > > > > Is there any way I could boot off of a USB flash drive - as in booting > > off of a floppy or the hard drive and switching to /dev/sda when the > > time comes to load the kernel? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Depending on how old the laptop in question is, you might check to see > if there is a newer bIOs that adds this functionality.
I had checked the release notes .. saw nothing very useful .. just the usual entries re: Windows Me or Windows 2000 "server" compatibility. So I'm not taking chances and flashing my BIOS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
