Tricking BIOS how to boot to USB HDD
#1
Posted 18 November 2010 - 06:26 AM
I have an old laptop Toshiba Satellite A60-S166 with ACPI BIOS (recently I have updated to latest version 1.90 provided in toshiba's site) it only have four boot options...HDD, CDROM, FDD (USB-FDD Legacy Emulation), and LAN (PXE)...it does not have option to boot from USB-HDD or USB-ZIP
Recently it cannot detect internal 30GB HDD anymore, and I think the internal HDD has broken and I have Seagate GoFlex 500GB USB-HDD...I want to be able to instal OS in my USB-HDD and boot from it instead of using LiveCD...I have around but cannot find solver to my problem...My questions are:
1. Is it possible to trick BIOS so it will see my USB-HDD as USB FDD and chainloader to primary OS? If so how can I do so? Step by step please
2. Or should I use or...is there any PATA->USB connector and connect my USB-HDD directly to mainboard? Will it be possible?
thanks in advanced for boot masters in here
#2
Posted 18 November 2010 - 08:29 AM
http://www.plop.at/e...r.html#features
#3
Posted 18 November 2010 - 03:31 PM
thx icecube for your reply...but i dont have any OS on my USB-HDD, i only use LiveCD for now to access USB-HDD...how can i install or could you please guide me...i appreciate your helpYou cqn use PLoP bootloader (BIOS extender which adds USB-HDD support):
http://www.plop.at/e...r.html#features
#4
Posted 18 November 2010 - 03:50 PM
You can install PLoP on your internal hard drive (MBR).
Or you don't even need to install it: boot it from the Windows boot loader, boot it from Syslinux, grub4dos, ..., boot from CD, ...
http://www.plop.at/e....html#noinstall
You can even install it in your network card rom (you will loose the ability to boot from the network (PXE). But this can be a bit more dangerous to do:
http://www.plop.at/e...ger.html#plprom
Choice enough
In your case, booting from CD, would probably the easiest way. Your laptop probably doesn't have a floppy disk reader, I suppose.
#5
Posted 18 November 2010 - 04:34 PM
i've read it all...bios cant detect internal hard drive, dont have fdd reader, my bios is not ami or award so i cant install it on rom either, its acpi...so i will choose the booting from cd option...Read the whole page at http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html (table of contents in the beginning).
You can install PLoP on your internal hard drive (MBR).
Or you don't even need to install it: boot it from the Windows boot loader, boot it from Syslinux, grub4dos, ..., boot from CD, ...
http://www.plop.at/e....html#noinstall
You can even install it in your network card rom (you will loose the ability to boot from the network (PXE). But this can be a bit more dangerous to do:
http://www.plop.at/e...ger.html#plprom
Choice enough
In your case, booting from CD, would probably the easiest way. Your laptop probably doesn't have a floppy disk reader, I suppose.
#6
Posted 19 November 2010 - 05:18 AM
correction...i still need to make BIOS detecting my USB-HDD...helpi've read it all...bios cant detect internal hard drive, dont have fdd reader, my bios is not ami or award so i cant install it on rom either, its acpi...so i will choose the booting from cd option...
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