Agreed! My very expensive notebook has a crapped out cd-rom, and the BIOS does not support booting from a USB device. I've tried researching PXE booting, but everything I find seems like a refresher for Sys Admins. Help! I want to free it from the shackles Of Macro Sloth
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Likely the best and most thriving suggestion that is currently up for the Smart BootManager! I have multiple USB sticks and also a picco read-only USB hdd I frequently use to boot while my arsenal of CDs, DVDs and BlueRays has no more been updated since a year or so. Booting from USB is a way faster, easier and more portable since an USB stick is less bulky and cumbersome to carry around. Unfortunately most old BIOSes do not support this or they have a boot barrier of 256GB or so beyond which no BIOS access over USB is possible. However replicating the full USB stack in a bootmanager would be a lot of work; not even grub2 is fully compatible with USB3.0 these days while grub2 is hardly being developed forth and much more cumbersome to use than the Smart BootManager. Nonetheless even USB2.0 support would be a great pleasure since most of the machines which make problems either do not have USB3.0 or still have some USB2.0 slots.
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Agreed! My very expensive notebook has a crapped out cd-rom, and the BIOS does not support booting from a USB device. I've tried researching PXE booting, but everything I find seems like a refresher for Sys Admins. Help! I want to free it from the shackles Of Macro Sloth
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Yes! That would be exellent!
Likely the best and most thriving suggestion that is currently up for the Smart BootManager! I have multiple USB sticks and also a picco read-only USB hdd I frequently use to boot while my arsenal of CDs, DVDs and BlueRays has no more been updated since a year or so. Booting from USB is a way faster, easier and more portable since an USB stick is less bulky and cumbersome to carry around. Unfortunately most old BIOSes do not support this or they have a boot barrier of 256GB or so beyond which no BIOS access over USB is possible. However replicating the full USB stack in a bootmanager would be a lot of work; not even grub2 is fully compatible with USB3.0 these days while grub2 is hardly being developed forth and much more cumbersome to use than the Smart BootManager. Nonetheless even USB2.0 support would be a great pleasure since most of the machines which make problems either do not have USB3.0 or still have some USB2.0 slots.