Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

On Friday 27 August 2004 06:43 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:

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BUT, I have only done it w/ DamnSmall and with a boot floppy that hands off to the USB stick. My old stuff won't boot to USB on its own. Just like some CD-ROM drives won't boot an OS, older hardware is not able to boot to USB. One year old stuff can though.

It depends on the BIOS. Some of the boarderline stuff can be persuaded to boot to newer devices given a flash upgrade.

Legacy floppy emulation depends on BIOS.

Booting a USB drive as an ATA device requires hardware support.

I've forgotten exactly what controller, but I remember talking to Toshiba and asking if it would be possible to add support with a flash upgrade, and the answer was no, the hardware didn't support it. And this on a less than 6 month old laptop.

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