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

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 4/28/06, Caleb Duggan <caleb.duggan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dont really know how to do any of those. But The second one sounds good.
>
> Don't suppose gentoo has a boot floppy like some of the other distros?
> does anyone know? a quick google search didnt find much other than smart
> boot manager(which didnt work)
>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:33:59 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > 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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> >>
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No boot floppy unless you make your own from the kernel sitting on the
boot cd (dd it to a floppy disk, pass the right parameters to access
an initrd on a second disk, then pass root control to the (now
discovered) cd).

If you're having trouble with the gentoo alternative install guide,
you're probably going to find this whole experience tough.. Can you
provide any other information on why some methods have failed? What
has gone wrong, what errors are you getting?

Tomasz