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Started by Lynx, February 29, 2012, 07:25:46 PM

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February 29, 2012, 07:25:46 PM
For YEARS now I have been looking for a way to boot from USB on a computer that does not natively support it.  I've asked in Linux, Windows, Hardware chatrooms, with no luck.  Everyone said it was impossible, something about requiring a kernel to host the USB drivers that would be needed, which would preclude loading the target OS kernel... 

So yesterday someone is talking to someone else and makes a passing reference to PLoP for booting from USB on computers with a BIOS that doesn't support USB boot.

http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html

AND IT WORKS!!! I am now very happy.
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