Plop Boot Manager (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html) is a boot CD image that'll just pop up a menu and let you choose where to boot from. I've used it to boot of USB drives on machines that don't have that capability. Download the ZIP and burn the plpbt.iso to a CD. On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Raymond Norton wrote: > I have a laptop that cannot boot from a USB drive. I found a howto on > creating a CD that will enable a USB boot, but it is of an old distro, which > does not have the same file structure. Anyone have a current howto for Ubuntu > Julia ? > > This is what I found for an older howto: > http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-boot-cd-for-ubuntu-810/ > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron --