Hi Bernd,
if "schreef" is the simple past for wrote, was is the present... "shrijfen"? :)
Part of the reason I'm trying to make a USB-stick bootable is to be able
to have a *writeable* removable medium, for example to be able to save
a backup copy of the running BIOS image before flashing.
Using your method, I would get a ramdisk with the FreeDOS boot floppy
in memory, which would mean it would be quite difficult to save the old
BIOS image. In fact, I have already got a method working for booting
over the network, which uses pxegrub and memdisk, to more-or-less do
what you describe, but via network rather than USB-stick. If you are
interested, I documented the method under:
http://www.unix-wissen.de/linux/BiosUpdate/index.html
Nevertheless I appreciate your suggestion, and will give it due consideration.
cheers,
Robert Urban
Bernd Blaauw schrieb:
> Robert Urban schreef:
> > I assumed that USB-ZIP was for Iomega zip drives attached by USB. In any c
ase,
> > I tried it, with results identical to USB-FDD and USB-CDROM -- it ignored
> > the USB-stick.
>
> Syslinux,
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.08-pre
5.zip
> contains a 'readme.usbkey' textdocument and a script (mkdiskimage) for
> initialising an USB Disk into 'ZIP geometry'.
>
> Please try.
> Execute the script with correct parameters,
> and install Syslinux to it.
>
> if you want to boot FreeDOS from your USB key,
> get several files from
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr
1/fdos1440.img
>
> the fdos1440.img contains a Syslinux configuration file (syslinux.cfg),
> the MEMDISK program (to load a disk image into RAM and let it act as
> actual floppydisk) and FDBOOT.IMG (the FreeDOS diskette image file I use).
> Other stuff might also be interesting, like Smart Boot Manager.
>
> syntax for booting this fdboot.img file:
>
> label freedos
> kernel memdisk
> append initrd=fdboot.img
>
> Bernd
>
>
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