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Re: [LUG] pcdos boot to linux

 

Doh 128Mb.

> On 12 Feb 2017, at 17:46, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> a)not all usb works the same way, not some modern ones need power and have logic 
> chips in front of the storage (should be transparent but iâve had issue with +4GB 
> travellers)â 
> 
> b) for some main boards youâll need to use a cheap < 2GB usb.  (assume use 
> something really small like 128Gb) as it will only see a fat16 partition as a usb 
> boot.  (this is the most likely issue) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12 Feb 2017, at 17:34, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> h travellers
>> On 12/02/17 17:29, Joseph Bennie wrote:
>>> check the bios for a dont boot usb or legacy usb (swich to modern mode) ,or 
>>> treat usb as cdrom/floppy  also some (rare) boards only boot usb1 ... it may be 
>>> that some options are concealed.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On 12 Feb 2017, at 17:24, Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I've got a machine with pcdos on it and I can get it to boot from USB (no cd) I 
>>>> can see the USB from PCDOS so surely I should be able to run the boot process 
>>>> on the USB?
>>>> 
>>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>> 
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>> They all seem to be set correctly - the machine is meant to boot from USB but 
>> I've tried 4 different USBs and different ISO's and none of them click. I have a 
>> virus so life is a bit fuzzy and I may be cocking things up  but in theory I 
>> should be able to sidestep the boot process and from pcdos run linux from the USB 
>> - used to do this in the very old days ISTR....
>> 
>> Tom te tom te tom
>> 
> 

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