Sparken


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Posted: Jan. 20 2008,23:09 |
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Hey Gang,
I have been trying -to no avail- to use a hard drive on a laptop strictly to act in the same fashion as a bootfloppy... to allow a USB stick to be bootable.
Here's the deal... Old laptop: bios has no usb booting support, slow-questionable hard drive, intermittent CD drive and no floppy. It may also be in places vulnerable to theft so I want the Hard Drive empty.
I want the hard drive to act strictly as a boot floppy would, only to recognize the USB stick and boot from it. I have messed around with Grub, and tried to force various images onto the drive. No Joy. Seems like a simple task for one who knows what they are doing and in this case, I am certainly not that one.
My Googlagle leads me to believe that I am alone in my quest.
Any Ideas?
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