Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:39 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: > > Not sure why you're having so many problems, although I admit that I hand > punched in a few values in the boot sector to make sure mine > booted. What's the brand and size of your flash drive? If I see one > locally and its cheap enough, maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Michael, You wrote: > At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: > > > > > > > USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to > > > choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works > > for > > > booting my USB stick here. But mine does bo

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: > > USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to > choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works for > booting my USB stick here. But mine does boot up as a large A:, which you > might not find a

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Robert Urban schreef: if "schreef" is the simple past for wrote, was is the present... "shrijfen"? :) "schrijven" (in Dutch, in English it's: to write) "ik schrijf" (in English: I write) Using your method, I would get a ramdisk with the FreeDOS boot floppy in memory, which would mean it would be qu

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Bernd, if "schreef" is the simple past for wrote, was is the present... "shrijfen"? :) Part of the reason I'm trying to make a USB-stick bootable is to be able to have a *writeable* removable medium, for example to be able to save a backup copy of the running BIOS image before flashing. Usi

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Robert Urban schreef: I assumed that USB-ZIP was for Iomega zip drives attached by USB. In any case, I tried it, with results identical to USB-FDD and USB-CDROM -- it ignored the USB-stick. Syslinux, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.08-pre5.zip contains a 're

Re: [Freedos-user] New EMM386 release

2005-02-09 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Thank you very much. It looks very interesting Bye, Flo Michael Devore said the following / schrieb folgendes (08.02.2005 04:18): Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx14.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms14.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostl

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Michael, Michael Devore wrote: > At 01:26 AM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: > > >My BIOS seems to be pretty good. The choices are: > >[the usual stuff, HDD-0,1,2,3; CDROM; SCSI; LS120; Floppy; etc] > >USB-FDD > >USB-ZIP > >USB-CDROM > >USB-HDD > > > >I chose "USB-HDD". I presume all the