said:
>>If there was USB support to boot from a USB disk or CD-ROM, why would the
>>care if the data was on a stick, a phone, or Peter Skye (USB version, of
>>course!)
>BIOSs don't care. They just execute code.
That's what I thought.
>What you are asking is the
>same as asking why the OS/2 USB drivers don't support every existing USB
>device.
I didn't think that I was. The OS/2 MSD USB drivers seem to support most
of these kinds of devices. I suspect that most of them follow a standard.
>Don't forget to write a STICKFS.IFS while you are at it.
I can squeeze out a half hour today to put it together. What should it
do?
>Now let me see you boot this track from the hard drive.
I wouldn't have expected it to do that without any way to tell it where to
find it. I was hoping that it would copy the structure to the directory.
But that appears not to be the case.
>You probably told RSJ to make a bootable CD when you wrote to the stick.
> I suspect you neglected to do this, or couldn't do this, when you told
>RSJ to write to the hard drive.
I told it exactly the same thing. I pressed the same button that seems to
copy it to the media, though with the CD, I had to "finalize" it.
>It appears that RSJ is smart enough to not
>even try to write a bootable image to a mounted volume. This is
>probably a good thing for the rest of the data on the volume.
Unless I told it only to write a bootable image to a specific directory on
the volume, which is what I thought it would do.
>Next time you create a bootable CD from an ISO
>image, try to find a file named track01.trk on the CD.
I won't find it - I'll find what I expected to find in that hard drive
directory.
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