Re: Booting from HDD

Hi John,

It works in VESA modes 114 and 117 on a Jetway J7F4 (7F4K1G2E-PB) board 
with VIA Eden 1.2 GHz processor, booting from a USB floppy drive.

Thank you _very_ much!
Jason

John Comeau said the following on 13/03/2008 11:50:
> Hi Jason, I think my last release on sourceforge will boot from USB
> but I don't have a jump drive to test it with. It ought to work
> because it uses BIOS calls, and I think a USB boot will come up as the
> "A" drive, but who knows what I might have overlooked...
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Jason Kemp <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Mornin' all,
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>> Has anyone made a version of colorForth available that boots from HDD or
>> from a USB flash drive?  I've seen the IDE driver on colorForth.com and
>> the USB code on CF05, but I think these are cases of still booting  from
>> floppy.  I'm just wondering if someone has changed the boot/kernel code
>> already.
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>> My laptop is now becoming unreliable by rebooting itself every now and
>> then and frequently refusing to read floppies.  I have another PC to try
>> but it doesn't even have a floppy interface...  I know--I really should
>> just go and find another old PC with a floppy and try that instead.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
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