No bios USB support.

cod_liver_0il · 09-30-2012, 09:57 AM

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.

rokytnji · 09-30-2012, 10:55 AM

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.

gnashley · 09-30-2012, 12:36 PM

You'd need to place the kernel (and possibly initrd) into the /boot dir on the hard drive and point lilo at that.

cod_liver_0il · 09-30-2012, 12:51 PM

Plop sounds good rokytnji, i'll give that ago.

gnashley, do you know of a HOWTO, i've googled around but not found anything.