[syslinux] Fwd: Boot from USB without C Drive

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 19 10:29:41 PDT 2006


Adiguna Muhammad wrote:
>  1. 512 MB is my first partition (which is D). This isn't a compaq flash.
> 2. I can't set my Laptop harddrive Active, because the first disk is the USB
> itself. As I said earlier, when I boot with USB, it create A: and C: drive.
> 3. If I running "fdisk /mbr", it will wipe out mbr from C: drive, not from
> D: drive.
> 
> So, could syslinux emulate just floppy (without C:) from USB drive?

Yes, memdisk can emulate a floppy drive.  It can even emulate 
nonstandard super-large floppy formats.

	-hpa




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