nope, not all bioses like that my hp mini's bios is only willing to do hdd emulation on usb sticks, so a dd'd iso or floppy image will not suffice (and hey, this inability isn't uncommon either)
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012, Andres Perera wrote: >> if they don't use the following to boot: >> >> * bootp (requires more than one system) >> * a cd (requires an optical drive) >> * a floppy (requires a floppy drive) >> >> then they boot from hdd. it doesn't matter if it's usb, sata or what have you >> >> there are no official boot images for hdd. nick is aware of this, and >> so are the rest of the developers > > Copy the floppy (or cd, for that matter) image onto a USB stick. B Boot > from it. B Problem solved.
