Re: Booting from a USB floppy drive

> try. It boots a 1.44 mb Win98 boot floppy fine. However, tomsrtbt
> 1.7.218 stops after LIL-. Also, my "parted" (partition edit) boot

Try 2.0.103, it may make a difference.  No, it still won't work.

The kernel doesn't support USB and when it takes over from the
bios it will fail.

> 1. Does anyone make a USB floppy drive that will boot floppys that are
> not 1.44 mb DOS format?

The 1.44 vs. 1.72 may or may not even be the issue.

> 2. Has anyone created a version of tomsrtbt that will boot off a USB
> floppy drive?

Dunno, I havn't heard of it if it has been done.

> 3. Can anyone suggest a way to make this work?

Redesign it to use initrd instead of a kernel-loaded ramdisk.

The initrd is loaded by the BIOS and can be made to work.

-Tom