On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 00:59, Luis.F.Correia wrote: > > From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This should make it unnecessary to know the size of the USB > > key (as long as the key is bigger than the boot partition > > size). The geometry issue shouldn't generally be a > > problem...the CHS geometry of the FAT filesystem is > > essentially embedded in the partition table, so would be > > written when the image is burned onto the USB key. > > >From what i've read so far for the last 3 years or so in the > syslinux list, this may or may not be true. > > It all depends on how the BIOS boot mechanism was designed > by the mainboard manufacturer.
Luis, I believe everyone settled on usb-hdd for bios boot support. I think hardware/bios with usb-zip, etc. boot support are where problems arise. > Of course we could create one test image and ask for > volunteers to test it is several machines with several > USB sticks. Testing is almost always a good idea. > But I guess I know the result already... no deterministic > results. This is where I think you'll be surprised. I believe everyone (bios writers & flash builders) have standardized around usb-hdd. > But I'm willing to 'sacrifice' one of my USB sticks to make > tests in the 3 or 4 different machines I have access that > can do boot from USB, and yes, that includes some hp servers :) Excellent. :-) -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
