On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
