booting from usb

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Matthias Pfeifer

If a bios of a pentium-3 level notebook does not offer booting from
usb is it all impossible to boot from usb? Does this need special hardware
support? Or may it be that the bios is "patched" to achieve the desired aim?

matthias
 
Matthias Pfeifer said:
If a bios of a pentium-3 level notebook does not offer booting from usb is it all impossible to
boot from usb?
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Impossible without a replacement bios, anyway.
Does this need special hardware support?
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Depends on whether you call the bios hardware.
Or may it be that the bios is "patched" to achieve the desired aim?
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Or just replaced with one that can do that.
 
Rod Speed said:
Impossible without a replacement bios, anyway.
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Dont now where to look for a replacement... any options?
The vendor (dell) does not incorporate this feature in the latest and last
(there will be no later version) version of bios.

matt
 
Dont now where to look for a replacement... any options?
The vendor (dell) does not incorporate this feature in the latest and last
(there will be no later version) version of bios.

matt
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Then you can't boot from USB on that system.

I take it you did install the last revision bios, and you still don't
have that option?
 
If a bios of a pentium-3 level notebook does not offer booting from
usb is it all impossible to boot from usb? Does this need special hardware
support? Or may it be that the bios is "patched" to achieve the desired aim?

matthias
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In some cases of OEM bios, you may not see an option for USB
booting, but if there's a key to access a boot selection
menu then if the USB device were plugged in it might show up
on that menu. Unfortunately I don't know what that key
might be on a P3 era notebook, if supported at all.

I doubt you'd find a patched bios.
 
Matthias Pfeifer said:
If a bios of a pentium-3 level notebook does not offer booting from
usb is it all impossible to boot from usb? Does this need special hardware
support? Or may it be that the bios is "patched" to achieve the desired
aim?

matthias
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P3 era computers used USB 1.1. Boot options never existed for USB 1.1.
Boot from USB was not possible until USB 2.0. That is why Dell does not
support it in BIOS; it is simply not possible with your machine.

Honu
 
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