Hi all, On Tuesday 06 March 2007 01:36:39 MobileLinux wrote:
> > Maybe new ones, but many system, even though they have newer > > processors, the general system design and bios is older and have > > issues with usb HD boots. > > Not if they use stock BIOS like Award, which 99% of PC manufacturers do > (make your own guesstimate). Those have supported USB boot for ages. > We have a 5-year-old Award BIOS PC that boots any USB 2 drive. In an ideal world, yes. In practice the #1 problem in semi-embedded projects are BIOSes not booting from USB disks at all or unreliable. The best joke is the Insyde BIOS of DT Research and other AMD Geode LX boards. With a USB keyboard and/or mouse present the BIOS rarely loads more than a few kB and then gets stuck. Removing all non-boot hardware from the board allows the BIOS to usually load multiple MB from the USB HD / stick fine. (Notice the level of fuzzyness in the above sentence :-) Lucky you if USB boot works for you that often :-) PS: The Zip geometry hacking is also described in the syslinux README, I'll implement it in the iso2stick scritp in T2 as soon as I find a minute. Yours, -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45
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