boot from cd, point to thumb drive

Jim azanorak at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 15:16:06 MST 2019


I have a USB stick with multisystem installed on it.  I'm looking for 
some way to boot from the CD then have the multisystem options available 
as if I were able to boot from the USB stick.

On 4/8/19 2:24 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
> If you boot from a CD/DVD and attach a properly configured USB device, 
> it will just be another device.
> You just mount the partition and be done with it.
> High level, I know, let me know if you need more specifics.
> ET
>
> Jim writes:
>> I've got a computer with a Gigabyte P35-DS4L revision 1 motherboard 
>> in it.  The boot options include USB hard drives, but it won't boot 
>> from a USB thumb drive.  It will boot from an optical disc.  Can 
>> someone tell  me how to make a boot CD that would  then point to a 
>> USB thumb drive?  I don't want to have to go back to burning dozens 
>> of boot discs.
>> I looked online and found many references to Gigabyte boards not 
>> booting from USB.  I found many people who had the same problem, and 
>> some solutions for revision 2 of this board, but none for revision 1.
>> thanks
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