On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:16:31PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:32:01 -0400 > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:11:37PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:51 -0400 > > > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > > > > Perhaps Smart Boot Manager could help? > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ > > > http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm > > > > Useful .. but I'm pretty sure a boot loader can only go by what the > > BIOS is telling .. so I'm not hopeful. > > It's been a while since I played with SMB, and I never used it that > heavily, but IIUC, the system boots from the floppy, and then the SMB > code turns over control to a system on some other medium. > I don't see that BIOS limitations are necessarily relevant.
I'll take a closer look. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
