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ashu_wifi1
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Usb boot on vmware is any trick i can get it??

HI

I know usb-boot is not supported on vmware but is there is any way i can use this as it is nessessary many times

i dont know y its not supported....that irritates me alot

Thanks

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RDPetruska
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>i dont know y its not supported....

Because the emulated BIOS of the virtual motherboard is an Intel 440BX chipset... which existed long before USB bootable devices did!

The only way I've seen mentioned here in the forums is to set up your USB device as a physical disk and boot from that. Search the forum for posts regarding this.

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