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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:59:38PM -0500, luke wrote:
> I have never heard of that actually working.  It probably should, in 
> theory, but in practice it doesn't, or rarely does.

Typically, you need a bootloader on track 0, sector 0.  It's just a
small program that tells the computer how to load the rest of the OS.
Maybe add it to grub or lilo and write a boatloader to the stick...

			Michael