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#1 2005-02-12 19:39:34

Snowman
Developer/Forum Fellow
From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Booting from USB cd-drive when not supported by BIOS ?

I don't know where to post this but here's the deal.  The internal cd-drive of my laptop broke so I bought a USB cd-drive.  My BIOS doesn't support booting from USB device.  I am wondering if there is a way to make it work. 

In a thread a while ago, someone mentionned the possibility of using a disk partition.  Booting from that partition  would give access to the CD. There wasn't much detail and I can't find the thread.  I don't know how to do such a setup.

Another solution would be to boot from the Arch boot floppies and to mount the drive.  Will the drive be detected? Is that possible?

Any ideas?

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#2 2005-02-12 21:50:31

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 4,863

Re: Booting from USB cd-drive when not supported by BIOS ?

Use a floppy with the Smart Boot Manager on it.

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#3 2005-02-12 23:16:13

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Booting from USB cd-drive when not supported by BIOS ?

Gullible Jones wrote:

Use a floppy with the Smart Boot Manager on it.

I will try it.

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