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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:02:05 +0000

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By: Stef

Stef — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:55 +0000

Thanks for you answer Seife. Is there an other way? Something like having a micro-kernel which enable the usb then boot on it?

By: seife

seife — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:04:46 +0000

Well, the BIOS needs to detect the USB drive and map it to a BIOS drive (IIUC, I am not that good at BIOS boot stuff ;)), so if the BIOS does not do that, this simple method cannot work.

By: Stef

Stef — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:32:08 +0000

I tried this with a very old laptop which is not able to boot on usb ‘natively’ but unfortunately it’s not working for me.
label 0 boots the local disk
label 1 fails
label 2 hangs with a message like “booting …”
Is there a way to adapt this to my need?
Thanks

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:11:55 +0000

Nice! I have wondered about this myself but hadn’t looked into it. If you download NetInstall CD though, why couldn’t it access DVD ISO in normal filesystem of USB though? Then later, you can have it loopback mounted somwhere and access it either through local directory or NFS.