I need a hybrid boot floppy....
Forum: USB booting
Topic: I need a hybrid boot floppy....
started by: kwjake
Posted by kwjake on Mar. 31 2006,16:49
Sup all,So I do a standard hd-install to a usb external hdd. What I need is a boot floppy that will scan usb devices for a hdd install.
Righ now, the hdd boot floppy scans hda1, etc for a hdd install, and the usb scans sda1, etc for usb installs. What I need is a floppy that scans sda1 for a hd install. Anyone know of one?
Posted by kwjake on Mar. 31 2006,18:11
The reason I don't boot from a cd is because the computer doesn't have cd boot selected in the bios, and I can't get into the bios (school computer) 
So I was thinking of putting dsl on the external hdd and boot to that using a floppy. The reason I don't want to do a standard usb-hdd install is because I want to make a swap and a ntfs partition, and the standard usb install wants to use the whole drive.
So I was thinking a standard hd-install on the external drive, and a floppy to boot from it.
I have a grub on a floppy, so if anyone could show me some grub commands to boot dsl with grub, that'll be great too
Posted by stoneguy on April 04 2006,22:14
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Posted by pr0f3550r on April 05 2006,15:38
I think you need to install grub or lilo on the floppy