On Monday 15 September 2003 10:24 pm, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
Has anyone done any thinking about booting from USB memory keys?
Do you mean the little solid state things commonly known as flash drives (even though there's no 'drive' as such)?
I noticed an article on Dell's site from June, that Ford Motor has standardized on Dells with no floppy and boot capable from USB memory keys. Apparently it is Dell's own BIOS standard to do this. At least, it isn't in the BIOS Boot Specification and I don't recall seeing it in any BIOS I've used lately. I don't own any Dells, though.
The Bios of anything I've seen in the past 12-18 months has been capable of booting from USB-IDE, USB-CD, USB-Floppy and USB-Zip
The solid state flash drives behave exactly like USB-IDE as far as what they're plugged into is concerned - just like Compact Flash cards vs. normal IDE drives.
Regards,
Antony.