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Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?



On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:53:12 -0500
"Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> wrote:

> The PC is old enough that it can not natively boot via a serial
> port but it might if grub knew about the bootable drive sitting
> in one of the ports.

I had a computer from that era that couldn't.  Not wouldn't.  Couldn't.
Only boot devices were the hard drive and floppy.  Just because the USB
drive is bootable, doesn't mean the computer can boot off it. So, check
the user manual, if you can find one.

B


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