Boot usb live image, even if bios doesn't support it?

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 19:45:17 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a quite old laptop (2003) with a crappy bios, which doesn't
> allow booting from USB and the laptop's dvd drive is broken.
>
> Is there any way to write some bootloader-code on the HDD, which then
> loads the live-cd from USB?
>
> Thank you in advance, Clemens

I have similar old laptops - and what works well for me is the "plop"
bootloader - either from a CD burned with the iso, or if you have grub
you can get grub to load the binary from a grub stanza...

http://www.plop.at/

Hope this helps
-- 
mike c


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