[SATLUG] OT: Booting off of USB

[Alex Bartonek]

--- John Pappas <j at jvpappas.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 13:44 -0800, Alex Bartonek
> wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > What I want is a quick(er) way to boot into
> Windows.
> > 
> > Is there a Linux alternative I can use?  Maybe
> some
> > sort of boot disk that loads up Linux from my USB
> > stick into a GUI environment?  
> > 
> > What about the same scenario except with Windows
> 2k?
> 
> That is what Hibernation (ACPI S4) was supposed to
> do.
> 
> This has no good answer.  The fastest way would be
> to suspend to RAM
> (ACPI S3), but that is a battery drainer when you
> have +1GB of RAM.  The
> next is disk (S4/S5), but it is not the 10 second
> solution.
> 
> At one point there was a vaporware company (l3 or
> somesuch) that was
> talking about an NVRAM cache to rapid boot a
> portable machine.  I have
> not seen a successful implementation however.
> 
> Just some random late night thoughts....
> John

In LJ there is a company that makes a 'router board' 
basically a router that boots off of flash memory ...
(I think..I dont have LJ here on me).. but anyway.. it
was just a thought... I dont NEED to have my laptop on
to monitor my car but it would be nice if I wanted to
I could boot it up and not have to wait a few minutes.

-Alex


 
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