Booting USB is no problem for me... here is a snippet of code I use to
automate this process:
(note, you might have to run this on a -current box)
#!/bin/sh
# read disk from command line
DISK=$1
# default values for Kingston 64M DataTraveler
CYLS=120
HEADS=16
SECTS=63
if [ $DISK ]; then
fdisk -i -c $CYLS -h $HEADS -s $SECTS $DISK
disklabel -f /tmp/fstab -E $DISK # interactive edit, can be automated
newfs -b 4096 ${DISK}a
else
echo "usage: $0 <disk> (ie: sd0)"
fi
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:
some BIOSes unable to represent USB-stick as ordinary
hard disk with real geometry.
instead of it I see fd1 due "machine disk" with 1.44M
floppy geometry (80/2/18).
I have tried to copy over floppy??.fs (which is in
80/2/18 geometry) to USB-stick but it failed to boot.
does anybody achieve some success booting using USB-
stick emulated as floppy?
What kind of machine is this?
i386
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcati845gl.html
BIOS 2.01
"copied over"..how?
(there's a lot of wrong ways. Few right ways)
"dd if=floppy??.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=512" on other box
"failed to boot"..how?
"Loading:."
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"so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just
retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does
not help then perhaps should not use computers..."
