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[Hermang Mansilla <herman_blues AT yahoo.com>]

Hi
a quick hack solution:
Download the iso image of geexbox (5MB)
burn it to a CD and boot from it
In the Boot menu pick install to usb-stick
Then boot with Windows or Linux, Browse the usb drive
edit file
boot\geexbox\menu.lst
Add other boot options for other operating systems
DOS, Linux, Windows, etc.
Reboot!



--- sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:29:00 +0000 (UTC)
> > sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Are there computers which will boot directly from
> USB memory stick in
> >> cases where the manufacturer was so cheap that
> there is no floppy drive?
> >
> 
> >    I have a machine that has the option to boot
> from a USB drive as the 
> > first option. As I don't have a USB stick, I
> haven't tried it.
> 
> To boot DOS from USB stick on a computer with no
> floppy drive, would we 
> just sys that drive?  It is FAT16 already.
> 
> 
> > But: it also has a floppy drive, hard disks and
> CD/DVD to boot from, so I don't actually have the
> need.
> >
> > Regards,
> >         Ron
> >
> 
> Sindi
> 
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System -
> http://sdf.lonestar.org
> 
> 
> We just confirmed that an HP with onboard i810
> video/sound chip also will 
> not boot BL3 loop if you boot DOS with himem.sys
> (plain 2.2.16 and 2.2.26 
> and also P1 2.2.26 and 2.4.31 kernels).
> 
> Without himem.sys, the P1 2.4.31 and the P1 2.2.26
> kernel boot and the 
> non-P1 2.2.26 kernel gets as far as 'invalid
> compressed format' and we 
> can't reboot without the power switch.  Same as the
> IBM with that chip.
> 
> The above holds for USB memory stick or hard drive
> boot.  I assume BL3 
> loop will have the same problems as on the IBM with
> i810 chip.
> 
> Avoid non-pentium (generic BL) kernels on these
> computers (I don't think 
> any 486s used system RAM for video anyway), and
> specify RAM minus 1M 
> (mem=127M if you have 128MB) or use a 2.4 kernel
> because 2.2 does not 
> detect the fact that 1MB of onboard RAM is being
> wasted, and use lilo or 
> bypass config.sys with F5 and avoid Win98 which
> won't boot without 
> himem.sys.  If you use lilo and 2.4.31 all these
> problems should go away. 
> (Except for the poor quality video and sound - use
> PCI cards instead).
> 
> Ext2 linux still has the memory detection problem
> with 2.2 kernels but 
> boots with himem.sys unlike ramdisk or loop BL.  We
> are now using lilo 
> boot floppy disks, with a menu, or you can choose
> between disks for BL3 or 
> BL2 boot, at various framebuffer resolutions.
> 
> Xvesa may also be affected by himem.sys on these
> computers, or maybe it is 
> the PCI ATI video cards we put in.
> 
> A generic (SiS) computer with i810 chip for onboard
> sound (SiS 7012 Audio 
> Device) but not onboard video boots BL2 ramdisk with
> himem.sys, loadlin, 
> and non-pentium 2.2.16 kernel.  So do all our
> computers without onboard 
> sound or video.  How do I identify the onboard
> ethernet if it is newer 
> than the SW71 'net' kernel?
> 
> I would not purchase a computer with onboard i810
> video.  It also only 
> gives you 1MB video RAM in DOS (and probably with
> svgalib).  Someone said 
> X for i810 can be made to work with more video and
> there is an i810fb 
> driver (it is not vesafb).  i810 sound only works at
> 48KHz sampling 
> rate which disables most sound programs and requires
> that mplayer convert 
> 44K or 22K to 48K.  But these are both 800MHz
> computers given to us free 
> and compile kernels four times faster than 200MHz.
> 
> Sindi
> 
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