----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Latter" Ian.Latter@mq.edu.au To: "Pedro M." pmacv@telefonica.net Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 10:04 AM Subject: Re: Re:Booting USB keydrive from BIOS
Ok, then I guess maybe my question should be; You said your PC BIOS supported USB booting, but is your USB key able to be booted?
I am not sure about it... I bought this modell (JetFlash usb 2.0 128 Mb---> Part #: TS128MJF2L
) because I saw : Window, Machintosh, Linux; boot up function--- can make JetFlash Bootable device
"JetFlash can also be setup to be used as MS-DOS Boot Disk with the software included in the package"
"JetFlash boot function requires Windows operating system, software installation and your motherboard need to support USB ZIP, USB-FDD or USB-HDD (in Windows XP only USB ZIP). Refer to your motherboard manual. Boot function only allow JetFlash to run MS-DOS programs, however, this does not make JetFlash as Rescue Disk or put Windows Startup files into JetFlash" http://www.transcendusa.com/FlashCard/docs/256MJF2L.pdf
http://www.transcendusa.com/FlashCard/docs/TS4GJF2C-EN.pdf
Are
you confident you have a bootable USB key?
Further more, under the BIOS' I have access too with USB boot capability, they tend to have differing types - such as;
USB-FDD USB-HDD USB-ZIP
I'm not sure if the syslinux version is going to be USB-FDD or USB-HDD
For Flonix is USB-FDD ( although sometimes , USB-HDD works, but not for me using Windows XP to prepare the booting files in the keydrive).
Regards.
P.D. : Has anyone obtained a good booting using Flonix with a keydrive ??. Can specify the trademark and modell of the keydrive ??.