is it possible to boot from usb memory sticks?
 
jtu100
Posted: 17 May 2004 05:19 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Posted: 17 May 2004 05:38 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Conceivably yes, but not with our TRs. There is no way to set the boot order in the BIOS.

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Posted: 17 May 2004 09:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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I’ve booted from a MS with a memory card reader on another computer, but as Groovy says, not on the TR…

Why are you trying to boot from a MS? You can boot from a bootable CD…even a mini-CD.

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Posted: 17 May 2004 10:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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was just curious . I was hacking around briefly with various dos mode tools for editing partitions. but now ive cracked that problem, and managed to get the recovery partition to appear under my computer i no longer need to boot to dos! :D

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