Re: [Freedos-devel] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-23 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi All, For reference, my 128MB USB stick can boot, but when I put it on an USB-Hub, BIOS seems have difficulty booting it, try several time and got 1 success only. Anyone have a "guide" on making bootable USB stick under FreeDOS, please let me know. Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:43 AM 2/22/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote: That went fine. I then booted the USB stick. It boots to a C: prompt. Unfortunately, the USB stick itself is at A:. The A: for the USB stick sounds right, but I can't figure how you're booting to a C: prompt through it. You don't have a BIOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Michael: I happen to have an "off-brand" 128MB USB stick. I used FORMAT 0.91V and the SYS and 32-bit kernel from fdos.org/kernel (Development). I booted from a floppy disk and did a "format d:" and "sys d:" to the USB stick. My primary 500MByte DOS partition showed up as C: and my extended

Re: [Freedos-devel] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-22 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Michael: I have two machines with problems booting USB sticks with FreeDOS (but not MSDOS). I am going to try to replicate your results using format 0.91v (from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/) I assume you used command.com from the "Development" branch of http://

[Freedos-devel] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-21 Thread Michael Devore
Last night I picked up a few off-brand 128M USB sticks and tried formatting them to boot FreeDOS on my system. As a pleasant surprise, the latest FORMAT 0.91v and SYS from 2/20/2006 32-bit kernel formatted all three brands to FreeDOS-bootable sticks -- although each received a runtime FORMAT m