Re: Booting from HDD

Dear Jason,

Looking forward to more from you and John Comeau, on how
to boot (and save?) with his iso on your flash drive.  

Re your not finding a version that works on a 3GHz P4,
I
have the same experience with 3.3 GHz PD on Intel945
board. None of the following booted properly - not
John's CD of CFDOS4, nor floppies with Chuck's CF01,
nor the Neitz/StMarie CF01, nor Josh's CF05 and a
related CF05 from Ray - though every one of these ran
reliably on my 0.55 GHz P4/ASUS P2. However (to my
relief!) Howerd Oakford's CFDOS4 (from Howerd's
website)
runs on both the old and the new machine. 

http://www.inventio.co.uk/

Scratching around for a possible reason, I found JC's 
meticulous comparison View of
/colorforth/boot_asm_list.txt on SourceForge.net. 
According to my understanding of John's list, number 11
is the only one for sure that "has VESA code instead of
AGP" - VESA/VBE being the new standard for graphics
software of course. 
JC lists number 11 as "/usr/src/howerd/VESA/boot.asm" 
but no. 10 is also by Howerd
"/usr/src/howerd/Quartus/BOOT.ASM # same as Kris
Johnson's"
so I am not sure which boot.asm is used to boot Howerd's
floppy, and which one is used to boot John's CD (and
your USB flash drive). But if VESA code does indeed
turn out to be crucial for some newer machines, then I
shall owe it to JC's method for spotting the difference
:-) 

Caritas,

NickM


Quoting Jason Kemp <[email protected]>:

>... " It's fine on the Jetway 
>... " It doesn't work on my old Gateway SOLO2150 which
>... " runs the original CF01 
>... " and Josh Grams's CF05
>... " So far nothing runs on my Asrock P4i64G 3GHz P4;
>... " anyway, I will try it again and pay more
>... " attention if you wish.
>... " 
>... " I will try booting from a flash drive later on
>... " the Jetway too.
>... " 
>... " Jason
>... "