Mike Cloaked wrote: > I have an old laptop that I use for testing new versions of Fedora - however > although it will boot of a physical CD containing a LiveCD (say of F12 > Alpha), it is old enough not to be able to boot off usb devices since the > BIOS is not arranged to do so. So a usbkey that contains a LiveCD that works > perfectly well on other machines won't play on this particular machine > (Fijitsu-Siemens Amilo D 6800) > > Can anyone point me to a reference to work around this by booting off say an > altered grub stansa in the HD which then refers to a plugged in usbkey to > continue loading the LiveCD files from the usbkey? Or something similar? > > I usually try to avoid using optical media if possible for running both > installs and testing LiveCDs. I can not find the link right now, but there are boot disks and CDs that will let you but from a USB device on systems that do not support it. I ran across it on one of the live-USB sites. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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