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

[W.Kenworthy]

Would a floppy (toms perhaps) or USB key boot get you far enough to load
the drivers and transfer control?  Use loadlin on the local disk (or
floppy) if windows as per the ancient redhat installs?

Another method that I use is to create a local chroot copy and build
gentoo within the local operating system and just boot from it when
complete (the local OS needs to be a linux though).

If windows, will the windows console (F5 or maybe F8 during boot) allow
you to transfer control to the CD and continue booting (have not tried
this so I dont know if it will work)

BillK

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:17 +0800, Caleb Duggan wrote:
> Nope. It looks like Smart Boot manager won't detect the drive.
> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:33:46 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Anything here help?
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:27 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> >>
> >> On 27 Apr 2006 at 18:45, Caleb Duggan wrote:
> >>
> >> > How do i do that? do i need to add some lines into the grub menu.lst  
> >> file?
> >> >
> >> > its a gentoo cd(2006.0 minimal boot) im trying to boot from but i dont
> >> > know where to point initrd, kernel and root to
> >> >
> >> >
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