mp3 player boot?Forum: USB booting Topic: mp3 player boot? started by: chickens_are_good Posted by chickens_are_good on Feb. 23 2005,01:41
i was wondering if it is possible to boot from a mp3 player like with a normal flash disk, but i dont know if changing the geometry will stuff it up, because theres probably extra stuff on there cause its an mp3 player. i tried booting from it with dsl and feather with the geometry how it is now from memory (i think it was 1011 heads, 16 cyllinders, 63 sectors) but dsl drops me to a "very limited shell" because it cant find something, and feather stuffs up as well. . sorry i cant give more info im at school now and dont have the net at home. ill write down the messages tonight and tell you tomorrow.
Posted by Xen0n on Feb. 24 2005,02:46
Depending on what kind of MP3 player it is... The firmware is usually on a ROM chip. Usually because reading from the firmware internal memory could conflict with the actual music data. Chances are, its safe to put DSL on it because the MP3 player probly doesn't have any boot instructions, nor would it read from a boot instruction that DSL may provide. And Im sure DSL doesn't have any ARM ASM fuctions for your MP3 player... Or atleast I hope not.
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Feb. 24 2005,05:36
I run a poormans install on my iriver h340.pop in a floppy, and boot fromhd=/dev/sda1 (or whatever the appropriate command is, i cant remember.) -J.P. Posted by chickens_are_good on Feb. 24 2005,07:01
thanks. love the signature SaidinUnleashed.
Posted by dexxa05 on Feb. 25 2005,18:27
Please Help Me.I use XP and i want change my Lexar Jumpdrive Geometry What i use for changing the Geometry? Thx @++ PS: Sorry My english is bad i'm french Posted by DaveUSB on Feb. 25 2005,20:40
Right Click my computer -> Manage -> Disk Management -> F: (or whatever your lexar drive is) right lick on it, and see the partitioning commands that XP provides. Remember to format at FAT (FAT16) after you're done. |