On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:24:05AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:16:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > I've been working on d-i usb support today. Current status is that it > > > > works (boots) here, and it will work in the archive once we get a new > > > > busybox and kernel-modules. > > > > > > > > I have only tested booting from a floppy, as none of the 6 or 10 > > > > computers I have tried can boot direct from a non-floppy usb device[1]. > > > > > > What do you exactly mean with a 'non-floppy usb device' ? I have a USB > > > keychain of 256MB with partitions and 2 machines which boot just fine > > > from it. They both recognize the keychain as a USB HD and boot from the > > > active partition using grub. > > > > I have a 128 mb usb keychain that I have never seen boot anywhere. Glad > > to know someone has one that works, do you know where I can buy your > > model from? > > I bought mine at a trade show in belgium. So I can't really give you a > good shop to buy it from. It's marked 'tiny disk'. usbview tells me > Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. It came with a 12cm CD containing > manuals in English and Chinese and some software for windows. > I also tried a 64MB keychain from a friend which works as well on both > machines. So I think it's more a question of proper USB support in the > BIOS.
note that a usb floppy is not usb mass storage - your bios must have support for usb mass storage to boot from the key chain, and this is more rare than supporting usb floppy boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
