Boot without floppy?

Im going to update my FW on my DR4-A but my FDD is non-functional. Is there a way to create a bootable cd with files from bootdisk.com or something like that?

If we are still talking about upgrade of firmware for MSI DR-4A DVD dual burner, only files you need are the firmware itself (zipped package consisting of two-three small files) and one exe file called DV2Flash.exe. Run this DV2Flash, browse to the firmware file and confirm. Nothing else is needed. I guarantee it works.
Talking about booting the system other way than from HDD, newer mobos support booting from USB flash discs, etc.

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Hello,
we are using a normal desktop-PC as LabVIEW real-time target (ETS).
Unfortunately, we always have to use the floppy boot disk (created with MAX) in order to boot this RT-system.
Once we had a National Instruments PXI real-time system and there was no need for that boot disk to start the system.
So, why do we have to boot the desktop-PC from a floppy disk instead of booting directly from harddisk?
Or is there a possibility to boot the desktop system without floppy disk, just like the PXI-system?
Tom S.

Hi Daniel,
thank you for your reply.
I just checked again if I can boot the RT-system without the floppy disk, from harddisk only - but that doesn't work ("DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK...").
Of course, the boot order in BIOS is set up appropriately to allow booting from harddisk.
And also, the complete software package was already installed on harddisk via MAX through the previously configured network connection.
Actually, it seems there is no boot loader installed on harddisk at RT-systems for desktop-PC's.
The boot loader has to be launched from the floppy boot disk and afterwards, the further boot program is loaded from hard disk.
Is there anyone who can boot a desktop-PC into RT without the floppy disk? And what do I have to set up in order to make it work for our system?
Thanks,
Tom S.

Booting without initrd?

So, I recently switched to systemd.
According to the Wiki I could safely remove the /-entry in /etc/fstab, because grub2 can handle mounting the root-partition. This is correct. Further down on the same wiki-page it it mentioned that "(initramfs) takes care of recognizing your root filesystem and mounting it".
This got me thinking - Is it possible to boot without using an initramfs?
According to this link it is, but I can't figure out how to do it. I tried booting with the following configuration, but got errors about a missing root-partition (my root is sda5):
menuentry 'Arch Linux - Custom initramfs' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-edfcc182-d233-431
5-aefd-0c11f80ff4a9' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 61fc73d6-c126-44c4-bf45-98ecbe06c96d
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 61fc73d6-c126-44c4-bf45-98ecbe06c96d
fi
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=sda5 rootfstype=ext4 rw quiet libahci.ignore_sss=1 raid=noautodetect init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
#echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
#initrd /initramfs-linux-tiny.img
Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do, without compiling my own kernel?

grub does not mount your root device. It has no concept of mount namespaces like the Linux kernel does. The wiki states that it's thanks to mkinitcpio's fsck hook, and totally unrelated to any work your bootloader does. The only mention of a bootloader in this text is where it mentions that you can change "ro" to "rw".
The initramfs mounts your root device. If you have no initramfs, then your kernel must have, compiled in, support for your storage bus (SATA, PATA, SCSI, etc), support for your block device driver (very likely using the sd_mod driver), and support for your filesystem. With all these things available, you can remove the initrd line from your bootloader, and the kernel will mount your root partition, assuming it can understand the declaration. That is, it will understand /dev/sda2, but not something like /dev/disk/by-label/myroot or LABEL=myroot. Interestingly, it will understand PARTUUID=123456... thanks to some patchwork from the ChromeOS team.
All this said, the stock ARCH kernel is incapable of running without an initramfs. You'll need to compile your own.

Boot from floppy and install arch from flash stick - NO CDR - USB 1.1

MY PREVIOUS POST BELOW BECAME A HARD DRIVE INSTALL POST WHICH HAS HELPED THOUGH ISN'T ON SUBJECT CURRENTLY AND I STILL NEED SOLUTION - Now at day 3 :-) - sorry!
I have old laptop with a very broken CDR... so just a floppy and a hard drive and 2 USB 1.1 ports.
[Need commands and which floppy is best]
The USB install WIKI
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick
says to write the .img file to flash stick...
--- that I can do!
Though trying a similar process:
I've had no luck with a hard drive install (also on wiki) as I believe that once I write the .img file to the hard drive it WILL boot though can't create mount points as the drive's in use!
Anyways...
IF I have the flash stick with the .img file on it as per the wiki instructions
what commands would I use and what boot floppy would work for:
- booting from floppy
- mounting? the flash stick with arch core on it
- then installing from there to single hard drive partition.
thing is I'm just barely ok with using
dd fdisk and mke2fs
So: I need to know what command to mount USB stick... then HOW do I get arch installer on the img file to boot up??
Any guru tips really needed ....thank you!
Last edited by yvonney (2009-01-28 08:44:59)

nice Kirurgs
doesn't boot from usb... and CDR very broken... good though as I've learned a lot....
dell inspiron 2500 1 ghz pentium III
method 1) used puppy after booting off wakepup2 floppy ....very handy that wakepup flopppy though be advised there's several versions of wakpup2 and try the second boot option on the aug or sept 2008 version it WILL find your USB device even if like me I had an old 128 meg one. also, Crash, a guy at the puppy forums has a 3 floppy set that's specific to whatever puppy version you're running... try that as a last resort
UN-NECESSARY BLATHER COMMENT: The way those puppys are created weird me out., the more I looked around, Yes, I've read a wee bit about Aufs, and what goes into the whole persistent thing.... seems like lotsa almost impossible to ever 'really' know stuff is going on it there.... Consider the source of that comment of course... I have huge blank spots in my knowledge and skill and am actually only a relentless year one linux'r... [not counting 6 years of hum and haw] though I'd wanna build my own live arch usb with tips from here before I ever tried to REALLY figure out what goes into creating puppy. I'm saying that at one or two points I thought.. hmnmm... perhaps puppy on this old laptop.... though concluded that ARCH for ALL things is really the only option. puppy's a great boot and hunt around thing though (for me, and in my current opinion).
method 2) eldamar and eldamar's guide which started me towards success .. which I basically now just do the dd command to an empty partition after booting from puppy .... THEN thrown in a supergrub floppy .... have it 'bring alive' the partition I've just dd'd the arch .img to.... and reboot.... oh, and from puppy I can create partitions as well.. gparted I think.
method 3) untested also can use plop floppy it's a boot loader... you may be able to get slitaz distro to create one for you through the 'bootfloppybox' terminal command... not sure if it uses the old floppy linux version of PloP or the win version or what.... dunnno dunno!!! gotta go! :--)
crazy busy so writing to say... pretty much all fine! :--)
for me this move was 3-4 days of lots of WONDERFUL bad luck... with everything from puppy hell, my partial-dumbness and back..
thing is.... I'm real good at it now.... hehehehe
gotta love problems!
Last edited by yvonney (2009-02-03 17:27:56)

Intel D2700DC + Arch won't boot without display

I've faced really wierd (to me) problem running Arch as mini webserver on the Intel D2700DC mini-ITX board with Atom D2700 integrated and NM10 Express chipset.
I successfully installed the system, configured network and started sshd to continue setting up other services remotely via ssh console. Then I disconnected the keyboard and display from the case and put it under the table. After that I was quiet surprised that the system was not starting up anymore.
After some investigation I've found that the system is not booting if no display is attached to the DVI port of the motherboard. If I start the system with display disconnected, I can hear one beep that notifies about successful BIOS POST, HDD led blinks 2-3 times, and then just nothing happens. System isn't booting up. If I attach the display right after that - nothing is seen on the screen, and display is immediately falling into sleep mode. Keyboard is still active though, and if I press ctrl+alt+del - the system is restarting, and, if display was just connected, it boots ok then. Also it boots fine from the cold state if the display was attached to the DVI port at the time of powering on.
As I can assume from the timings and HDD led blinking, the boot process stops right after GRUB is loaded. There's nothing in system log, cause it seems that boot hangs just before the kernel is loaded by GRUB. I'm really stuck and don't know how to work around this situation, because if the display was disconnected when system was powered on - then there's no way to see anything on the screen until next reboot, and if the display was connected - then the system boots OK.
One more thing to notice:
There was an old CentOS installation on the HDD, to which I installed Arch Linux. I've tried to boot it once or twice before installing Arch, and, as I could remember, it could boot up without display connected, on the very same hardware. So I suppose it's definitely something in Arch that is preventing the system to boot without the display.
I guess that when no display is connected at boot time, NM10 chipset completely disables onboard video, and because of this we can't see anything on the display until the system is restarted. But this somehow affects Arch, so it can't boot without any video hardware present.
Last edited by rand256 (2012-05-10 10:23:28)

I'm afraid there's no such option, but it looks like arch isn't booting just because no graphics card is detected in the system when display it disabled during powering up.
There is a couple of similar topics about some other linux distros can't boot without video card inserted ([1], [2]) with some recommendations on what to do in such a case.
I've followed them - including enabling serial console in /etc/inittab, setting nomodeset in kernel line in grub's menu.lst, checking for enabled splash-screens... but that didn't help.
Does anyone know what options should be tuned in order to boot Arch without any active graphics card present in the system hardware?

Make OSX SD/USB bootable lock, i.e., make Mac unable to boot without SD card.

Hello!
I'm trying to find a way to make my Macbook unable to boot without an external media to initialize the computer. Or at least a way to remove the harddrives from the listed boot options by hitting the option/alt key on bootup. I want to remove those options and force the computer to boot off the removable media. Is this possible, or has it been attempted?

The boot disk is specified in System Preferences>Startup Disk
What do you see when you boot to recovery and look at the startup disk and look at the disk(s) in disk utility?
OS X: About OS X Recovery
Try reinstalling via Recovery as stated in the above.
Do you have access to another Mac? If so can connect via FireWire bd access the Mini's disk via FW target disk mode
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode

How to install WinXP on SATA without floppy drive?

Hi.
Is it possible to install WinXP on PC (with SATA) without floppy drive?
WinXP installer itself doesn't recognize SATA controller, so floppy disk with drivers is included.
But my PC doesn't have any floppy drive (what a relic. none of new PCs should contain a floppy).
How could I install WinXP on my PC? (without buying & mounting floppy drive).
(maybe one of DVD drives, ethernet or flash drive could be used somehow)
thanks.

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dear list,
silly you cant download from the website really isnt it.
cheers
brummie
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Quote from: Deathstalker on 06-June-05, 21:32:36
Jeremy,
If you are having to do that all the time, then there is something else wrong with your computing habbits.
Richard
I used to try out programs on my old laptop and some of them weren't as clean as I had hoped. So I used to reinstall windows on it all the time. Luckily windows had all the drivers for my laptop so I didn't have to slipstream the drivers, but I probably reinstalled windows every other week. I just figured it was better to try a program on a computer that I didn't rely on rather than my main rig.
Have Fun
Jeremy

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Windows 7 won't boot without optical drive (SSD, Dual HD)

I recently purchased an SSD and an optical drive HD caddy so I could use two HDs on my macbook pro. I installed the SSD in the normal HD slot in order to install Windows via optical drive. When I move my SSD over to the optical drive slot, Windows hangs on a black screen before the Windows logo and never boots. I tried moving the SSD back to the main HD slot but without the optical drive installed, the same symptoms occur - no boot. This leads me to believe that Windows will not boot without the optical drive (which was present during installation).
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Has anyone experienced this and/or have a solution?

I am suffering the same issue. Macbook pro 15 inch late 2009 with 8gig ram. I have a 256gb ssd newly installed, a dead superdrive (thanks a bunch for the drop in build quality without the drop in price apple) and an optibay caddy which i intend on having my 500gb 7200rpm previous HDD installed in. I had the normal annoying issues trying to get bootcamp working with an external optical drive. I then had the bright idea of taking my external optical drive case apart and discovered its a sata drive with a sata to usb convertor attached. Got bootcamp/win7 installed fine using the superdrives sata connector with the optical drive (essentially having a temporary internal optical drive again).
OSX and windows function fine as long as the optical drive stays connected. There does not need to be a disc in the drive, i thought windows might be getting boot info from the win disc. Osx boots fine if its just the ssd. Windows hangs with a white screen right at the beginning. Also doesnt boot using boot menu via alt key. Nor using the reEFIt boot menu (installed later now deleted).
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My Power Mac G5 will not fully boot without safe mode, it only comes to a blue screen where my cursor duplicates in to 2, (one is frozen, one can move by moving the mouse). What is my problem, and how do I fix it?

Great clue Lukas...
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Windows 8.1 Pro won't boot without USB Stick

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My lenovo e330 started having problems with HDD.
Most of the time when trying boot without PSU connected got windows error saying "A disk read error press alt ctrl del to restart"
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Boot the "old white MB" from the external, and double-check the version of OSX on it. Make sure it's not earlier than the version that came with the MBP. Check the MBP's DVD, or plug it's serial number in here: http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php
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Boot without periphials?

Hi there,
I've got the following problem, maybe there's a solution...
I installed Solaris 10 on an x86-based Rackserver.
If I disconnect the periphials like monitor, keyboard and mouse, the system won't boot. It hangs at the license statement.
The server should work as DNS-Server and it should be able to boot without periphials. So, does anybody know a workaround?
Thanks very much
Thorsten

... assuming that it works the same as SPARC, you need to set eeprom input-device and output-device to ttya. I believe there is a bootenv.rc file in x86 where you can set this. Do a search in sunsole.sun.com.

Mac pro boots without apple logo..

Hello,
I have a MAC PRO 2008, and it boots without a grey screen and apple logo.
If I turn on de mac the screen does not go on, after a 10 a 15 seconds the OS is starting up, screen pops on and have no isseus with the MAC pro.
I tries to reset the smc and Pvram, but problem still there.
I tried other videocards, displays, press the reset buttons in de mac etc..
Anybody knows what is the problem of this no boot screen?

you either bought it used with a PC video card or upgraded yourself, as Illaass pointed out, not realizing the difference or what EFI firmware on a graphic card vs not. And some GPUs have a switch to allow legacy PC mode or UEFI.
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