USB Memory Key booting

Steve Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Mon Sep 15 18:03:00 CEST 2003


Antony Stone wrote:

> 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.
> 

Hmmm... I guess I need to look at a current BIOS, I must have overlooked it.

Anyway, any idea how much work it would be to get linuxbios to be able 
to read the USB-IDE?

-Steve





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