BIOS too old

[Goh Lip]

On 08/19/2010 01:49 PM, Johnny Lee wrote:
> Hello,
> I think this issue probably had been brought up before. But I can't find
> a satisfactory answer in the Ubuntu support database yet.
> I think my BIOS (Windows XP) is too old. It can only boot from floppy
> drive, dvd drive, network, and hard drive (in that order). I got to the
> step of having Ubuntu 10.04 on a USB stick but I can't boot from it.
> What can I do?
> Thanks,
> Johnny
>
If you have grub2 on the hard disk, ie., there is another linux OS with 
grub2 there, it can boot up the usb OS. just plug in in the usb and at 
the hard disk OS, do a "sudo update-grub". It will detect the usb OS and 
make an entry at the grub.cfg where you can then boot it up.

Regards - Goh Lip