Steve Gehlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Antony Stone wrote: > > > The Bios of anything I've seen in the past 12-18 months has been capable of > > booting from USB-IDE, USB-CD, USB-Floppy and USB-Zip > > The solid state flash drives behave exactly like USB-IDE as far as what > > they're plugged into is concerned - just like Compact Flash cards vs. normal > > IDE drives. > > > > Hmmm... I guess I need to look at a current BIOS, I must have overlooked it. > > Anyway, any idea how much work it would be to get linuxbios to be able to read > the USB-IDE?
I don't think there is USB-IDE. I think the stack looks like USB-SCSI. The challenge is that the USB stack is fairly tall. We should be able to incorporate a version of that into etherboot or FILO. I don't think we want a version of that in the core of LinuxBIOS, but I can be surprised. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
