BIOS without USB boot option

Question

Hello, I would like to know if it's still possible to boot from a USB key (containing a Slax distribution) even though the BIOS does not offer that option? (Toshiba laptop)
If not
Can we flash the BIOS to make it USB bootable?

Configuration: Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0

percherie · Accepted Answer

Look at BootPart and EasyBCD. These two utilities allow you to manipulate the Windows boot to add your USB device. If the BIOS doesn't support booting from USB, Windows will take over as long as you have a functional installation.

BootPart is aimed at all versions of Windows up to XP, it manipulates NTDLR

EasyBCD is aimed at all versions starting from Vista (Vista, Windows 7), it manipulates BootMGR

There is a solution to place Windows on a bootable USB stick to install it without a CD: WinToFlash, which is illegal even if you own a license, but from an "eco-friendly" perspective, the absence of a CD that could get lost or scratched seems interesting.

Otherwise, I use Ubuntu and there are many tools to use USB boot via a CD that handle all this: http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/cd_boot_usb
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=251383

And a little message from COM. to all those who have a pirated version of Windows: switch to Ubuntu (or other Linux versions), it’s easy, free, legal... Everything is recognized from the first try, no more virus or intrusion problems, the risks become minimal compared to the Microsoft world. You can receive it for free by mail if you don't have internet and test everything without installing anything thanks to the "Live-CD" option.

nauno · Answer

I might say something silly, but if you boot from a disk like startup98, you mount the USB key and you launch the system manually!!!  -- Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes champion! If the important thing isn't to win, why do we keep score?

jipicy · Answer

Hello,  I would like to know if it is still possible to boot from a USB stick (containing a Slax distribution) even though the BIOS does not offer the option?  Check out Runt.  Can we flash the BIOS to make it USB bootable?  Yes, if the BIOS upgrade goes in that direction.  -- Z'@+...che.JP : Zen, my Nuggets ! ;-) Knowledge is only valuable when shared.

kungfuserge · Answer

Hello Nauno There is no floppy disk on my laptop.  Does RUNT allow flashing the BIOS to enable the USB option?

nauno · Answer

I was talking to you about floppy disks, but you just need to boot in DOS,

as for RUNT, I didn't know about it, I skimmed through it, I'm not sure it's related to a BIOS flash

Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes champion! If winning isn't important, then why do we keep score?

kna · Answer

The Slax CD allows you to boot from the USB

You boot from the CD, press Tab to bring up the command line (cheatcodes) - which isn't very clear in light gray on a white background, by the way - and then you add "from=/dev/sda1" to boot from /dev/sda1.

LuiniLBleue · Answer

Hello,
I have an old Toshiba laptop that needs to be reformatted. The issue is that the CD drive isn't working, so reinstalling XP would have been difficult. I bought an adapter to connect my internal CD/DVD drive to my desktop via USB. However, I can't find how to boot the PC from this device in the BIOS.
Thank you for shedding some light on this ^^
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LuiniL*

samsung13 · Answer

I don't want to either, it doesn't allow booting from USB/external hard drive, and I don't want to flash my BIOS, what else can I do? Thank you.

Edymignon · Answer

It means what without a hard drive, explain a little and we can help you.

grosbete · Answer

I know a simple way to start SLAX even if the BIOS does not support USB, as long as you have a floppy drive. I use the WakePup floppy disk that is used for the Puppy distribution, but it can be used for any Live USB Linux distribution. WakePup is a FREEDOS floppy disk that loads drivers for CDs, hard drives, and USB devices.
You just need to create an empty file named USBFLASH at the root of the USB stick and boot with the diskette and the USB stick connected.
In the case of SLAX, the kernel is located in a directory named boot. Therefore, you need to modify the WakePup autoexec.bat so that LINLD.EXE loads the kernel from the boot directory (LINLD %drv%\boot\vmlinuz).

geantbrun · Answer

For Linux, this can serve as an example: http://www.nutyx.org/support/showthread.php?tid=1218

dom17 · Answer

Hello

Another option when the BIOS does not allow booting from USB
plop boot manager
to put on a floppy disk or CD

Creating a bootable CD to boot from a USB drive

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