El 04/02/2012 09:45 a.m., Jim Hall escribió:
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>
> On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, "dmccunney" <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
> <mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS
> > on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick.
> > BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because
> > no driver is available that can do it. (I've looked at the USB
> > drivers for FreeDOS, and they don't handle the method the box uses.)
>
> Many BIOSes support USB sticks under DOS using "legacy emulation" or
> "legacy mode", but it is possible that your BIOS is not one of these.
>
> Kind of surprised that your BIOS doesn't support booting from USB,
> though. I thought that was something every BIOS supported, and it
> should be OS-independent. But maybe yours is an older machine?
>
> jh
>
>
I had 2 old Compaq machines (a laptop and a desktop), both pre-PIII
machines that had USB port but dont support boot from USB.
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