Hiya

I just made a bootable Ubuntu 11.04 USB Flash drive. Rather than dual boot, like on another machine, I chose this USB with casper-rw option so that I could transfer the drive between a new netbook and a very old laptop as needed. Now I don't foresee any trouble with the new netbook even though I have not tried it yet....but I already ran into trouble with the old laptop. It's a Sony Vaio pcg-grz630 that is over 8 years old. Phoenix BIOS. I went in to change the boot order, but the BIOS has no option for USB or external device. Just optical, floppy, hard drive and network. Questions:

1. What can I do with this seemingly outdated BIOS that won't even list USB options?

2. If I boot into WindowsXP, can I run Ubuntu on top of it....and still make use of the Casper-rw persistence function?

Thanks