Re: Anyone booted from USB key drive?

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_binaryfoundry.ca)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:33:28 -0500

William Park wrote:
>
> I have Mercury PVCLE266M-L with integrated VIA C3 cpu, which is similar
> to VIA's own mini-ITX. It has tons of boot options, of which
> USB {FDD,HDD,CDROM}
> USB RMD-{FDD,HDD}
> USB ARMD-{FDD,HDD}
> seems to be most relevant. My motherboard detects my USB key (SanDisk
> Cruzer Mini 256MB) as
> USB RMD-FDD
> which is a little strange, because I expected USB-HDD or something, but
> not "floppy".

Floppy disk aren't partitioned. Hard drives are, and I believe Zip
disks, too. I presume that your USB key doesn't have a partition table,
and that's why it the BIOS thinks it looks like a floppy. (OTOH, I've
never really trusted automatic detection routines.)

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