boot from floppy AND usb

Forum: USB booting
Topic: boot from floppy AND usb
started by: smeagol

Posted by smeagol on Dec. 25 2004,15:34

Hi
I have a booting usbstick works really great.\
At home i have an older machine, which hasn't the boot option.
Is it possible to 'make' a boot floppy, which enables the usb ports on my machine, so i can finally boot from usb?
Tried bootusb-0.8 and boot-0.8 floppies but that doesn't seem to work.
What am i doing wrong?
TIA!

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 26 2004,03:38

The bootusb floppy should work fine with the standard "Install to pendrive" version of DSL.

It probably WON'T work with the "triple-boot" qemu version of DSL.

Maybe the boot floppy is having trouble recognizing your USB controller. It is also possble that you have a very old USB 1.0 controller that does not work properly without a BIOS update for your motherboard. There are some older Dell computers that fit this description.

Good Luck.

Posted by smeagol on Dec. 26 2004,22:12

Wrote bootfloppy four times, fourth time it worked!.

This is FUN!

Thanx for the reply!

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 27 2004,01:43

Welcome to the Revolution!!!

Posted by CNE4and5 on Dec. 27 2004,04:27

I have a Lexar 64MB USB Flash Drive that is detected at bootup and loads the DSL (0.8.4) prompt; however, when I type "DSL" it begins to load 'everything'. It gets past the init. phase and eventually the screen goes blank and it stalls. Any Suggestions?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 27 2004,04:38

Does typing...

" dsl vga=normal "

make any difference...?

73
ke4nt

Posted by CNE4and5 on Dec. 28 2004,19:05

Thanks for the reply. I have tried "dsl vga=normal", I have also tried "Failsafe". It stalls everytime. I have also tried it on three other machines. It has failed to load on every one of them.

Any suggestions? I thought of downloading DSL again...

Posted by Calitar on Jan. 06 2005,01:06

This is just a shot in the dark, but that sounds like a similar problem I had. You might want to try using "dsl xmodule=vesa"

Posted by CNE4and5 on Jan. 15 2005,04:53

Thanks,

I will give it a shot... btw, I have been able to get it to boot to a couple of DELL laptops, latitudes - D600

...consistently.

-CNE4and5

Posted by Mechcozmo on Jan. 19 2005,01:07

Quote (Guest @ Dec. 26 2004,23:27)

Don't type DSL?

Just press enter. Usually after the DSL you need to have an argument there like 'toram' etc.