How to boot floppy image without floppy drive?

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Published on 2010-04-29T13:26:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 13:27 UTC
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Suppose I have a 1.44 MB floppy image with, say, a BIOS update, and a server with no floppy drive. How do I boot this image on the server? Without getting a USB floppy drive, that is.

I tried copying the image to a USB drive (raw copy using dd), but it didn't boot, it just said "No kernel" and contiued booting on the HD.

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