Re: Booting Fedora from inside windows

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john wendel wrote:

Is there a way to boot a real OS on a windows box (without using a VM)?

I'm looking for a way to boot Fedora on a hostile windows XP box. The windows box is locked down with a BIOS password, won't boot a CD, disabled usb ports, and no way for me to install any windows programs. I believe the Ubuntu thing that runs Linux from windows requires the installation of a windows program, so it won't work in this environment.

Maybe. You may be able to plug in a USB thumb drive and then hit a key at boot time which takes you into a "boot manager" which bypasses the locked down BIOS choice. Some BIOS configs have it, some don't, some ask for the BIOS password.

If you can plug in a USB drive you can run one of the distributions which run using Windows as a microkernel (colinux) and executed off the USB drive. This does not use virtualization, at least in the usual sense of a virtual machine, and is about as fast as any Linux on bare iron.

There are articles on colinux, microkernel, etc.

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