At 11:29 AM 11/17/2005 -0800, Quentin Liedtke wrote:
I'm having a real tough time trying to get FreeDOS to boot from a USB
flash drive and I'm hoping that the fine folks on this list might be able
to help me.
Hardware I'm using:
- I'm using an Intel D865GBF motherboard with BIOS version
BF86510A.86A.0075.P24
- I've tried booting from a 256MB SanDisk Cruzer Micro and a 128MB
Shikatronics
Hopefully someone on the list has a working solution for you.
If not, I have an alternate proposal you might consider. Basically, I see
more general questions off-list about booting FreeDOS and USB sticks than
any other single issue nowadays. It appears to remain quite difficult to
get a bootable stick working for many computer setups. And besides me,
I've only seen a couple of people around mention that they have a
FreeDOS-booting USB stick.
So here's my offer to anyone on the list with USB stick problems booting
FreeDOS: If you mail me the USB stick -- or an exact model duplicate --
that you are having problems with, I'll try to make it work here. If I can
(or even if I can't), I'll mail the USB back with the bootable
configuration, or whatever the last attempt configuration wound up being
which didn't work.
After receipt, the first step here will be to save the original bootloader
image. I can compare that to the final working image to see what any magic
differences might be. Second step is to try, as best I remember, to go
through the process I did creating my FreeDOS-booting 256M
JumpDrive. Third step, assuming success, is to see what can be done to
make the entire process less painful and more likely to work for other
people. Four step is to actually document the damn thing this time instead
of trying to remember what bumbling about I did to get the USB stick to boot.
Standard warnings apply: 1) Just because I can get it to boot here does
not mean it will boot there. 2) The attempt could utterly fail,
particularly if the USB stick is old or off-brand. 3) Those taking me up
on the offer will have to spring for some stamps to mail the stick and
obviously won't have it available to use while I work on it. 4) Umm,
four, well I dunno, I suppose the mailman could accidentally run his white
van over it, smash it into a million pieces, or I could die of sudden onset
triple leprosy and have the stick cremated along with my oozing corpse.
(I do see that 256M Cruzer's can now be purchased for a mere 30 bucks, but
unfortunately between the new USB floppy drive for testing a laptop with
EMM386 VDS changes, the TASM upgrade, and the Red Cross thing, my
discretionary fund for FreeDOS is approximately 17 cents, at least through
early 2006.)
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