How do I boot Finnix from a non-ATAPI CDROM drive?
Finnix will automatically try to boot from any block device it finds. This includes ATAPI CDROM drives on most IDE controllers, SCSI CDROM drives on many SCSI controllers, any USB or Firewire drive on a standard UHCI/OHCI/EHCI bus, and can even be installed on a bootable USB key. Of course, these all depend on your BIOS’s ability to boot your intended device. You may find that your BIOS is not able to boot a USB CDROM drive, or from a PCI controller card. • Parallel-port CDROM drives and non-standard (IE, sound card) CDROM interfaces are not supported. • USB keys/thumb drives: Let me begin by saying that MANY BIOSes are horribly broken in regards to booting a USB key. For a primer, read about making USB keys bootable with SYSLINUX. If your BIOS can boot a ZIP-style USB key, you may use the finnix-thumbdrive utility within Finnix to automatically partition and format your USB key, copy the Finnix CD to the media, and modify the necessary files. finnix-thumbdrive will erase any data curr
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