Satellite A300 PSAGCE: Is it possible to boot from external CD/DVD drive?

Hi,
Somebody could tell me if it is possible to boot the toshiba satellite a300 psagce from an external usb cd drive?
Best Regards,
Miguel Alves

Hi
The BIOS supports following bootable devices:
- USB FDD,
- Primary HDD,
- Optical devices,
- Network(LAN)
So *USB ODD* is not supported by this BIOS

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