[plug] booting from a usb cdrom drive without bios support

[Arie Hol]

On 27 Apr 2006 at 18:13, Caleb Duggan wrote:

> I'm trying to boot off a cd drive pluged in through a usb pcmcia card on a
>  computer where the bios does not support usb booting, is there an easy
> way  to do this? I tried smart boot manager but that didnt work.
> 
> Is there a way to boot off the cd using an existing debian 
installation? -
>  i can access the cd drive in that.
> 

Just a thought !!

I don't know if it could work, but :

Have you considered modifying your Grub configuration in order to point 
the boot process/bootloader at your USB CDrom drive ????


Regards Arie
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