Booting BT-from-USB without USB-Booting-Option in BIOS (old BIOS). Help

[tristania]

(sorry for my bad english)

Hi folks

I got here a USB-Stick (bootable) with BT-v2F inluded.
Its working on my friends PC (new BIOS, new BIOS) because he can Boot from USB.

Unfortunately my notebook and my PC canNOT boot from USB. Even with a latest BIOS-Version.

Is there a possibility to use/boot Backtrack from my USB-Stick anyway?


My idea would be: to create a bootable-FLOPPY or CD. This Floppy or CD would BOOT and THEN start loading Backtrack FROM the USB-Stick.
But I dont know if its possible and how to make it. ;(

Any help/idea?

trista

[purehate]

Im really confused.If you can boot from cd then why not get a copy of backtrack on a live boot cd

[tristania]

maybe because of the "read-only" of a CD, my-configs/software etc.?

[purehate]

maybe because of the "read-only" of a CD, my-configs/software etc.?

If your machine can boot from cd then you can boot a live cd of backtrack. Your asking to boot a cd to make your usb boot and that doesnt make sense. call me crazy but why would you do that.........Tell me somthing I dont know because I love to learn and I am often wrong.

[dbfreak]

i had the same problem, what i did is make a dos boot disk an include my usb dos drivers(USBASPI.SYS,ASPIDISK.SYS) then i added a line in my autoexec.bat so it ran bt/boot/dos/loadlin or you could just load it from any dos prompt if you have usb drivers loaded.

[tristania]

If your machine can boot from cd then you can boot a live cd of backtrack. Your asking to boot a cd to make your usb boot and that doesnt make sense. call me crazy but why would you do that.........Tell me somthing I dont know because I love to learn and I am often wrong.

I often install and change stuff on "my"-BackTrack, almost every time I use BT.
My configs/installed-software would be gone if I start the live-CD, wouldn't they?

[dbfreak]

The reason i wanted to boot from usb was because at the time i didn't have any cd around and wanted to run backtrack

[tristania]

i had the same problem, what i did is make a dos boot disk an include my usb dos drivers(USBASPI.SYS,ASPIDISK.SYS) then i added a line in my autoexec.bat so it ran bt/boot/dos/loadlin or you could just load it from any dos prompt if you have usb drivers loaded.

that sounds good.
will try it...

[purehate]

I often install and change stuff on "my"-BackTrack, almost every time I use BT.
My configs/installed-software would be gone if I start the live-CD, wouldn't they?

the live cd can be edited with your new installs. any way it seems dbfreak had a solution so maby he could post it so that other peolple will see

[dbfreak]

Download "wakepup" which is a program for booting puppy linux.
Click on Wakepup an you should be prompted for a formated disk etc..
Go into the disk you just made and delete everything in autoexec.bat and config.sys then add these change drive letters accordingly

autoexec.bat

c:
cd boot\dos
bt

and i added this to config.sys

!switches=/E

!device=A:\driver\usb\USBASPI.SYS /v

!device=A:\driver\ASPIDISK.SYS

!SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT

!files=20
!buffers=20
!lastdrive=Z

Make sure you load the correct drivers they may not be the same as above.