Re: [opensuse] boot from USB without USB choice in bios

On Saturday 29 September 2007 08:58:33 am Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Still working on my trusty Pentium II which does not give me the
possibility to have USB as boot possibility. Same with my Pentium III
laptop.
Would like to use my USB stick for booting a live linux but found up to now
no usable solutions.
Can somebody help me out?

If there is no BIOS options, than you need grub installed on hard with
complete /boot directory.

Floppy would be option if it is possible to create small initrd that can fit
on floppy. I haven't tried that for a long time.

In any case, it is not very usefull unless you only want to test bootable USB
stick.

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Rajko.
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