for people without USB BIOS support, please read following.
(Caution, the following is dangerous and may be harmful to your PC, I am not responsible to any damage caused)
steps:
1)if no dos is installed, then go to grub4dos.sf.net and downoad wingrub, if dos installed, goto step3.
2)install wingrub. after finished, select base setup, select c:, select grub install, select boot from file, select boot.ini
3)prepare usb flash drive as disk, you may fdisk/format under win98+usbaspi environment, or partition magic under windows, make it bootable
4)put use plop.at provided floppy image, unzip, put it in c:\ and rename as sbm.bin
5)reboot into grub4dos, select a column with sbm.bin and press enter
6)plop starts then press u, if plop support your USB disk, you are lucky.
7)you may have the USB disk "sys" with win98 dos. put grub.exe into the USB disk.
8)copy "ntldr" as "ntldr_usb"
9)edit menu.lst with following line:
title boot embedded XP from USB
find --set-root /ntldr_usb
map () (hd0)
map (hd0) ()
map --hook
chainloader /ntldr_usb
boot
10)goto some forum and download a mobileXP alike, unzip into USB DISK
11)now, if you want to remove the harddisk, then you can put the plop manager into BIOS, look at this:
http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=41439&fpage=1
and use cbrom to embed the romos.bin into your BIOS image, reflash the BIOS
12)reboot the system you may be under USB disk as C:\.
13)type grub and enter
14)select boot embedded XP from USB
15)entering xp boot
16) done
edit: grub.exe is not work this way. so use hmload and PE instead.
Last edited by uleak on 2008-7-13 at 07:44 PM ]
