[ltp] Re: R40 boot from USB stick

[Dirk Husemann]

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On 06/28/2003 05:37 PM, Rolf Offermanns wrote:

> I wonder, if anyone tried that?
> I have an usbstick (USB 1.1) here, enabled the BIOS usb boot setting 
> and tried various format options. Stick formatted as super floppy 
> (i.e. without partitions) or as normal HD with one primary partition 
> (which I made active).
> For each try I used syslinux to make it bootable, but I have not 
> succeeded so far. The stick got recognized by the bios but there was 
> no USB option in the list of bootable devices which you get by 
> pressing F12 during the IBM splash screen. 

hmm...funny...my R40 actually started looking around on my Archos 
Multimedia Jukebox which was USB attached and switched on when I booted 
the other week...it then complained that it couldn't find an OS...so I 
assume it works (switching the Jukebox off during boot fixed that "problem")

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