[syslinux] booting from usb

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kent Robotti wrote:
> 
> Right.
> 
> My BIOS seems to only look at my USB flash drive as a floppy drive, so it
> needs to have no more than one partition (if any), and be FAT12/16/32
> formatted.
> 
> I can't ext2 format my USB flash drive and have it recognized by my BIOS,
> but i suppose some BIOSs will look at a USB flash drive as a hard drive
> and not have that limitation.
>  

Eh?  I know of no BIOS which requires a specific filesystem on a floppy 
disk.  You can use ext2 on a floppy disk/zipdisk just fine, and extlinux 
supports setting the geometry if needed.  Furthermore, extlinux 
intentionally puts that information in the same location as the FAT 
superblock, so if you have a BIOS which peeks in the FAT superblock for 
geometry hints, it should still work.

	-hpa