Old laptop drive, perfect for /boot

[Jon Pruente]

On 12/6/05, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> Absolutely true, can't boot some of the newer LiveCDs
> which don't have boot floppies anymore.
>
> D*mnSmallLinux only works on some of them when you use
> the syslinux version.
>

I've also had luck with using SBM (
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html) to get older machines to boot
from CD-ROM.  You need either an SBM boot
floppy or to install SMB to the MBR.  It wouldn't work with an original 2x
CD-ROM in a Toshiba Sat.Pro laptop, but did work in the same madchine with a
4x module, so it isn't always the BIOS that causes the troubles, too.
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