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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...)
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:45:35 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Has anybody here ever, under any circumstances, actually managed to boot
> an operating system from a USB flash drive?
Yes. Several times. :-)
Jim
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On 12/20/2010 9:45 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Has anybody here ever, under any circumstances, actually managed to boot
> an operating system from a USB flash drive?
Yes.
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On 12/20/2010 02:45 PM, 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...)
A couple of Linux Live distributions, yes.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> 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...)
Yes, on somewhere between 15 and 20 different PCs the last 2-3 years.
I suggest that you try Unetbootin with some Linux variant.
--
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com
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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...)
FWIW, it needs not only the right BIOS, but the right flash drive too.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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I use BackTrack 4 from a flash drive...works nicely.
Ian
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:45:35 -0500, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> 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...)
--
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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.
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void main () {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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