USB Flash for booting?

[RobbieSan]

I was wondering if a USB flash stick would be good for booting? I ask because my mobo (A7N8X) provides USB-HDD as a bootable device..

Anyone have experience booting with this stuff?

 

[Zedric]

Yeah it should work as long as you're able to make it bootable. Never tried though.

 

[RobbieSan]

this is a bit confuzzling so I'll to research a bit more.. this PDF on USB Flash says it can be made bootable but not under 2000 or XP..

 

[RobbieSan]

hmm, now that I think about it that shouldn't matter since we're booting into DOS.. I guess I could use a Win98 or Me image to boot from.. I might experiment with one of these down the road..

 

[Taurus]

i've always thought that was an excellent idea. about 100x faster than the archaic floppy drive, way more reliable, and you can put an entire minimalist installation of 98se on a 256mb stick, probably.

don't think my board supports it.

 

[RobbieSan]

that's a pretty up to date board with NF2 chipset.. same as the A7N8X so I think it would support a USB-HDD boot.. have a look in your BIOS under bootable devices and see if it's an option..

 

[Geffy]

be way cool system recovery device with like a cutdown version of BSD or something on it

 

[Taurus]

Originally posted by RobbieSan
that's a pretty up to date board with NF2 chipset.. same as the A7N8X so I think it would support a USB-HDD boot.. have a look in your BIOS under bootable devices and see if it's an option..

yeah, i checked. i just hope that maybe a future bios update will give me that option.