[Freedos-user] USB boot and hanging.

2013-12-10 Thread kurt godel
I too have had blinking-cursor-hang;PloP boot manager will often, but not always succeed in mounting/loading a usb. I suspect that the main problem with the usb stick is that it often contains an HPA partition. If the usb truly behaved as a hard drive, you could eliminate the HPA. When using

Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-17 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds, Johnson.

Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Johnson Lam schrieb: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds,

[Freedos-user] usb boot

2009-03-14 Thread ramin
Hi I am trying to run freedos off a usb drive and I followed the instructions here http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=USB. Unfortuntly I just get a black screen that says boot: and when I press enter it says could not find kernel image: fat32lba.bss. thanks for the