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
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