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#1 2005-02-12 19:39:34
- Snowman
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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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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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Re: Booting from USB cd-drive when not supported by BIOS ?
Use a floppy with the Smart Boot Manager on it.
I will try it.
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