A lot of the newer ones do now. A lot of new PCs even only support floppies via USB (Dell sells some models where internal floppies are optional. It also seems that USB flash drives are starting to replace floppies for transporting small files easily and in some cases, booting.
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 15:29, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > What can boot is a BIOS feature. Have never seen a motherboard that can > boot from USB, > but that doesn't mean they don't exist. > > Choppy > > At 10:46 AM 6/1/03 -0500, Cleve wrote: > > >I may be wrong but I've been under the impression this whole time that the > >specific motherboard chipset has to allow the "boot from usb device" option. > >Help me out here......am I misguided? I want to set this up as well but > >I'm having a little trouble finding the motherboard that I want.....the > >Asus motherboard that I've been looking at has an nforce2 chipset that > >comes with just about everything......I'm not getting the version with > >built in video.....but I don't think it allows for booting from > >USB.....which sucks. I'd like to find all the features of > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
