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09-30-2012, 09:57 AM
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Registered: Apr 2012
Location: India
Distribution: Slackware, FreeBSD
Posts: 48
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No bios USB support.
Hi all, is it possible to boot a slackware usb install from lilo on my main drive. Reason being my bios don't support USB and i've never tried using slackware or any other OS's from USB.
Thanks.
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09-30-2012, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: AntiX 13 , Various Puppys (MacPup),VL 7 STD Gold,Semplice
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Is there a floppy drive on that unit?
I have used a PLOP floppy to boot usb 1.1 with no bios support.
http://www.plop.at/
Plop can also be burned to a cd disk also and booted. |
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09-30-2012, 12:36 PM
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Amigo developer
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
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You'd need to place the kernel (and possibly initrd) into the /boot dir on the hard drive and point lilo at that.
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09-30-2012, 12:51 PM
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Registered: Apr 2012
Location: India
Distribution: Slackware, FreeBSD
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Plop sounds good rokytnji, i'll give that ago.
gnashley, do you know of a HOWTO, i've googled around but not found anything.
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