how to boot from usb when my BIOS doesn't support it ?

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i just downloaded openSUSE 11.4,i used to burn the .iso file to a cd and then boot using the CD.
recently my cd/dvd writer crashed and i was wondering could i boot from my pen drive in such cases,i also prepared a bootable pen drive but in my BIOS settings there is no option visble for such booting.
please help.

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Some BIOS can boot USB pens as CD-ROM, some others can boot them as hard drives. Some can do both. And some just can’t boot from USB. Replacing your cd/dvd drive appears to be the solution in this case.

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i’ll ge my cd/dvd drive replaced,but i just wanted to know that can’t i boot from my usb drive when bios doesn’t allows it.Is there any way to fool BIOS by creating any virtual disk through pen drive or something like that?
I just wanted to know that method because using usb is too handy for booting than carrying a cd always.

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I’ll say no. A pen drive is not a virtual disk. It is either basically a real disk if it contains a partition table or it is more or less a real CD-ROM. However it is attached to a USB port and if the BIOS doesn’t allow it, noone is going to boot from there. Your mainboard must be pretty old, isn’t it?

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Use PLOP Plop - Boot Manager - Free Boot Manager, builtin usb driver, native usb, boot different operating systems, cdrom, usb, freeware, option rom bios

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plz explain steps of installing plop bot manager on windows vista(on hard disk)…
i’m finding it a bit confusing out there.

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thanks a lot,John…ur method worked…!!!