On 10/11/07, Christopher Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig Skinner ha scritto: > > Christopher Bianchi wrote: > >> The situation is this: this notebook can boot from cdrom and floppy, > >> yes..but from docking station ! i haven't docking station ! Desperate > >> :-( > > > > Can it boot from a USB floppy? > > > > > in the bios there aren't any voices for boot from usb... so i assume > that this notebook can't boot in this way :-( > >
and from a pen drive ? if your laptop can boot from usb flash pen drive, the following should work : 1) save the contents of your pen drive somewhere 2) do a fdisk -i <insert device name>, create a single partition with disklabel then newfs it 3) copy /bsd.rd and /boot on the freshly newfs'ed partition. 4) do an installboot to set up properly the PBR on the pen drive 5) plug the pendrive on your laptop and try to have the bios boot it. 6) at the boot prompt, type bsd.rd and voila ! see fdisk(8), disklabel(8), newfs(8) and installboot(8) for more informations -- Vincent GROSS "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
