Re: Booting from USB drive

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:15:40 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:58:15 +0000, Michael staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
My motherboard doesn't support booting from a usb drive (but does from
a usb key.)

Er, WTF? USB Mass Storage devices should all react in the same way to
BIOS requests. That is, it *should not matter* whether the device
you're trying to boot from is a 128M keychain drive or a 128G USB disk.
Maybe you'd better clarify this statement--post the exact error messages
you get, make+model of motherboard, etcetera.

Well that does puzzle me. I haven't actually tried the disk because I don't
want to unpack it as I will return it if I can't use it to try out other
operating systems.

The actual info about the booting from usb drive came from the manufacters
web site

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