Re: Boot old laptop off of USB flash drive?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:51 -0400
Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> 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
 
Celejar
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