Re: Booting from HDD

Dear Nick,

Sorry, I sent this yesterday but it's been bounced back.

It doesn't boot from a flash drive.

The board has a Phoenix BIOS and it identifies a USB flash drive in the 
BIOS setup as "USB-HDD0" so I assume it is emulating a hard disk--in 
fact I had the same flash drive running FreeDOS before (so I could run 
Pygmy) and DOS saw it as the C: drive.  So if it's emulating a HDD then 
I expect that is why colorForth Won't boot fully--it displays "P9492" in 
the top right though, which I assume is from the progress routine in 
boot.asm.  Lots of guessing and assuming at the mo!

Just a brief Google of USB Flash booting and it appears that in some AMI 
BIOSes give a forced FDD emulation option.

Jason

Nick Maroudas said the following on 14/03/2008 20:36:
> 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
>> ... " 
>>     
>
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