BIOS too old

[James Takac]

Hi Goh

On Thursday 19 August 2010 17:00:01 Goh Lip wrote:
> 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


Not a bad idea. That was about the only idea I forgot as I thought thru the 
options. Always good to have more than one head on the prob ;)

James