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>From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
>To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:15 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)
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>On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, "dmccunney" <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
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