[syslinux] USB-FDD
Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
gustavo at compunauta.com
Thu Jan 19 09:53:23 PST 2006
El Miércoles, 18 de Enero de 2006 16:30, Adam Wysocki via ArcaBit escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on making an USB flash disk bootable and have succeeded in
> booting Linux using syslinux from disk in USB-HDD mode. Is there a way
> to do it in USB-FDD mode, possibly also using syslinux as a bootloader?
My experience:
I was able to boot in USB-FDD mode only my real USB Floppy drive (1.44), and
my USB-TO-IDE Enclosure for a laptop Hard Drive was only able to boot on
bioses that support USB-HDD mode. Others USB enclosures that my bios does not
report as USB-TO-IDE and REPORTS as MASS-STORAGE-DEVICE not allways works
even the BIOS has support for USB-HDD.
For booting with my Card Reader, I was able to boot in USB-ZIP mode formatting
the cards with one single partition.
for flash drives, the same procedure using mkbootfat & syslinux, (published on
this list).
Some flash drives like Kingston Traveller has something wrong in their
partition tables, the main data are moved forward in the drive about 16, 32
or 64 sectors of 512 bytes (diferent models), so it does not matter if we
wipe out the original partition structure and use as a drive with or without
partition table on whatever system, if you do that on that media you got a
super compatible flash drive.
Booting my Gentoo Live DVD iso on my USB Hard drive is not always posible,
cause the BIOSES then I was able to boot the ISO with a small CD-ROM that
founds later the drive with proper drivers and so on.
Did you find a BIOS upgrade, for your boards?
I was able to boot with pen drives on one mo.bo. jus after making a bios
upgrade :P
> Thanks in advance.
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Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
Compunauta uLinux
www.compunauta.com
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