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

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:40:17 +0100
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?
> 
There may be something here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ that can help you.  I know it has options for usinf a FDD to start a USB drive, as I’ve used that method myself on lod machines.

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