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On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:44:25 -0000, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> sorry, this is a bit off topic. |
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> I have old hardware where the BIOS cannot boot from an USB device. |
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> For testing a Gentoo problem (Balsa) I need to boot an older system. |
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> Is it possible to boot from a cdrom drive and then "switch" to the |
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> kernel with the full init process on a separate (USB) drive? |
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> Is it possible with some Grub2 "tricks"? |
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It is possible with GRUB, creating a menu entry that boots your USB |
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stick, but how you do this very much depends on how the USB stick is set |
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up. |
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Alternatively, use the PLOP bootloader from a CD, which can then boot |
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from USB - https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html |
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