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by 3dbuddha
Tue May 13, 2008 1:51 am
Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from a hard drive using grub
Replies: 4
Views: 15141

Thanks, this just may be what I was looking for. I appreciate your prompt replies. I will post again as soon as I'm able to implement these ideas and let you know how it works, and what I did.
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by 3dbuddha
Mon May 12, 2008 2:25 am
Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from a hard drive using grub
Replies: 4
Views: 15141

Thanks. A couple q's: Do the contents of the UBCD have to be the only thing on the partition, or can it be the contents of a directory? I've never used syslinux, does it write it's own record to the MBR? or can I call it from grub? Has anyone tried this from an ext3 partition, maybe using pxelinux? ...
by 3dbuddha
Sat May 10, 2008 12:28 pm
Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from a hard drive using grub
Replies: 4
Views: 15141

Booting from a hard drive using grub

I've got a small laptop that lacks a cd drive, and won't boot from an external cd or usb. It also has no floppy, and I don't own, and don't want an external floppy or cd, this laptop is great cause it's small. I've managed to get linux installers to correctly run off of a small ext3 partition which ...