Hey
I've just got a diskless 1630 laptop which I want to boot, and I don't want to use CD's. When I boot up the laptop and hits the F12 menu to get boot options, the best alternate I can see is Removable Devices, but I can't seem to figure out what that is. I have tried USB-sticks, which should not work since I am running BIOS v. 1.01c if I remember correctly, and I havent made it to boot from a memory card and I don't think it's the CD station since that got it's own label in the boot devices list. So, any tips?
And, does anybody know if there is any point of taking the chance of flashing the BIOS to an alternate version supporting USB boot, if there exists any at all? The newest available BIOS is 1.04, and 1.06c is required to to that if I am not wrong. And if I do, and I also manages to brick the BIOS or the hardware is not supported to it wont boot, is there then any ways to flash the old BIOS back again if I have a backup, without replacing the BIOS chip on the mainboard?
I am going to run Linux, most probably Debian on it if that is of interest.
Thanks
I guess I can install the bootloader or a minimal Debian system on a CD and load the rest of the system from USB, as I want to be able to save data. The best would be to find out what these "Removable Devices" are, or fix the BIOS if possible.