On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, John Austin <ja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, jackson byers <byersjab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Please bear with me on this newbie question, >> > my install experience is quite limited. >> > >> > Is it possible to install to usb external disk when bios does not see usb? >> > >> > >> [snip] >> > >> > thanks for any help >> > Jack >> >> >> You have two problems to overcome: >> >> 1. You cannot directly boot from a USB device if the BIOS does not >> support that feature. >> Worth a try to see if there is a BIOS upgrade for your system that >> allows booting from USB. (Highly unlikely.) >> >> 2. A device driver needs to be loaded in order to access the device. >> The driver and boot manager need to be installed on an accessible >> device such as a floppy disk, CD/DVD, or hard drive. >> >> Time to upgrade to new system or get a USB add-in card with BIOS extension. > > > I do it on my old laptop but only to provide an emergency fall back > > 1. As my main disk is dual boot windows, f10 (/ and /boot) > I can write vmlinuz and initrd to /boot on the hard drive and boot my > USB stick using these > > 2. Also it is possible to create a bootable CD with the correct vmlinuz > and initrd for the F10 USB stick Alluded to in my item 2. > Spending money is more fun though May not be more fun, but certainly easier. > John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
