Sorry if I was unclear, but what I was talking about were motherboard that have the ability in their CMOS option to allow for booting from USB. I've never owned one but as I understand it is becoming more common. There are motherboards that don't even have serial or parrallel ports...everything is attached via usb. In fact I seem to remember seeing a motherboard that didn't even have PCI slots......video, lan, modem, everything was built-in.....so you would have to boot from a usb floppy ....well, not necessarily, I suppose you could boot to your CDROM drive. At any rate, I was referring to motherboards with usb boot support in the CMOS
At 03:29 PM 6/1/2003, you 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
