On 12/20/2010 7:45 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Has anybody here ever, under any circumstances, actually managed to boot
> an operating system from a USB flash drive?
>
> I keep hearing stories that say it's possible, but personally I've never
> managed to make it work. (Perhaps because I haven't found a PC with a
> BIOS that actually supports doing such a thing...)
Yep. Had to as a means to booting my laptop, so I could write the OS to 
the newer, larger, SSD drive I put in. In most cases, the PC is set to 
a) not allow it, and b) not look for the USB as a boot source, by default.

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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