Re: USB support
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:24:05AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:16:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > > I've been working on d-i usb support today. Current status is that it
> > > > works (boots) here, and it will work in the archive once we get a new
> > > > busybox and kernel-modules.
> > > >
> > > > I have only tested booting from a floppy, as none of the 6 or 10
> > > > computers I have tried can boot direct from a non-floppy usb device[1].
> > >
> > > What do you exactly mean with a 'non-floppy usb device' ? I have a USB
> > > keychain of 256MB with partitions and 2 machines which boot just fine
> > > from it. They both recognize the keychain as a USB HD and boot from the
> > > active partition using grub.
> >
> > I have a 128 mb usb keychain that I have never seen boot anywhere. Glad
> > to know someone has one that works, do you know where I can buy your
> > model from?
>
> I bought mine at a trade show in belgium. So I can't really give you a
> good shop to buy it from. It's marked 'tiny disk'. usbview tells me
> Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc. It came with a 12cm CD containing
> manuals in English and Chinese and some software for windows.
> I also tried a 64MB keychain from a friend which works as well on both
> machines. So I think it's more a question of proper USB support in the
> BIOS.
note that a usb floppy is not usb mass storage - your bios must have
support for usb mass storage to boot from the key chain, and this
is more rare than supporting usb floppy boot.
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