booting old hardware

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Friday 14 January 2005 12:15 pm, Bailey, Michael L [NTK] wrote:

> So if that won't work, would a USB CD drive (using some kind of adapter,
> the 760E has neither CD drive nor USB port) boot?

If you need drivers, chances are you're not going to be able to boot to the 
device.  It needs to be accessible at the BIOS level to boot from it.

If you could get the bootloader with an initrd file on a BIOS accessible 
device, you could put the rest of the OS on whatever kind of device you can 
find drivers for.