> From what time are your 6 PCs? distributed over last 15 years
> Any 2004+ mainstream PC I've seen contains > a BIOS version which I know supports booting from USB 2 attempted but didn't work ... > no 2004+ mainstream PC I've seen (except x86 Macs) contains EFI. yet ... > Some of the BIOSes require the boot media to be formatted with MBR (as > that HP bootable flash format tool creates) but some require > "super-floppy" format instead (no MBR, a single partition). Or exactly: > Current DOS versions require this, the BIOS just provides the storage as > either Int13 disk *below* 80h (floppy) or *above*(/equal) 80h (hard disk > with MBR), and since now I've seen no DOS version to provide any kind of > auto-detection, or a manual override to disable/enable the partition table > parsing for the boot drive no matter which Int13 unit it is This is interesting but I didn't test that thoroughly ... my access to those 2 "promising" PC's is somewhat "limited" > Guess to what DOS version I'll add at least the override option Great :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
