Re: [Grml] Chainboot Cheatcode

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:19:43PM -0700, Mark wrote:

Older PCs do not have BIOS support for USB boot. Some offer USB boot, but it just doesn't work. Some machines only have USB support by means of PCI or ISA cards, and these cannot be booted.

Yes, that sucks :-( BTW: Some motherboards are able to boot from USB after a BIOS upgrade.

All these machines will boot GRML off CD. So, the idea is this - offer a cheatcode to transfer control to a USB/Firewire/SCSI drive. This is not the same thing as using a /home directory on the drive, it means complete Linux system transfer.

You mean, that the CD should only work as a bootstrap? For which purpose? In other words: Which advantages do you see in such a solution?

greets Jimmy