USB Memory Key booting

[Andrew Ip]

Hi,

> I checked the latest EPIA BIOS and it says USB-HDD.
Under Linux, it uses USB and SCSI stack to access USB IDE harddisk or USB
flash disk.

> I figured the USB stack was deep; I may do some experimenting with Linux 
> and booting from one of these and see what is involved.
> I haven't checked the price to see how these compare with Compact Flash, 
> but the small size and ease of customer installation is attractive.  The 
It is just a little more expensive than CF, but its size is much smaller.
> CF requires an adaptor to IDE that is a little awkward.  The USB flash 
> memory can be installed by a customer without opening the case, and 
> saves the price of a CDROM drive (and the mechanical failure problems 
> with a CDROM drive).  All of this is from the standpoint of an embedded 
> system and may be of no interest to clusters.
I think we can take a look at u-boot which has USB storage access already.

-Andrew

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