I have downloaded a copy of Pendrivelinux 2008 (PDL 2008) onto
a flash drive and verified that I am able to boot/run this copy from a pc with USB
boot capability in the BIOS. Now I’m trying to find a solution to allow
me to boot this copy of Linux on machines that DO NOT have a USB boot
capability in the BIOS. The post here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/11/21/use-a-floppy-to-boot-usb-pendrive-linux/
is my inspiration for this request. Note that the configuration in the post is
for a slightly different version of Linux (not PDL 2008) and the boot
parameters for PDL 2008 are different enough to make the post at that URL
useless for booting PDL 2008. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar enough with
PDL 2008 to figure out how to modify the GRUB scripts to boot from the flash
drive. Is there anyone who might be able to help me with this?
On a slightly more advanced note, I have one pc in
particular that can not USB boot and it is on that PC (among others) that I
would like to run PDL 2008. This particular PC has Ubuntu 8.04 installed as the
primary OS and that version of Ubuntu boots using GRUB so… if I can
figure out the right scripts, I could potentially let GRUB load from the HD and
then use that to launch PDL 2008 from my USB drive, doing away completely with
the whole floppy drive stuff. Very sweet! Any thoughts here would be greatly
appreciated!
- Tom
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