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Booting from USB diskette or CD-ROM drive
I'm trying to boot Optiplex GX270 and SX270 from an external USB floppy or cd-rom drive and have no success.
So I played around with the bios settings of "usb controller" and "usb emulation" but when pressing the F12 key no usb devices show up. But W2k works fine with these devices.
Searching this forum I found several messages about booting from a memory stick. According to these messages this seems to work. Meanwhile I get the feeling that booting from anything other USB device than a memory stick is not supported.
Has someone any information about this topic?
Thanks,
Marak
So I played around with the bios settings of "usb controller" and "usb emulation" but when pressing the F12 key no usb devices show up. But W2k works fine with these devices.
Searching this forum I found several messages about booting from a memory stick. According to these messages this seems to work. Meanwhile I get the feeling that booting from anything other USB device than a memory stick is not supported.
Has someone any information about this topic?
Thanks,
Marak
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January 22nd, 2004 19:00
You can boot MSDOS or WIN9X dos from them.
Bios support for usb booting must be there or it wont work.
Marak
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January 23rd, 2004 06:00
Yes, that's quite clear. But this is afaik not a problem of the bios but a limitation of w2k or wxp.
My problem is booting from a dos floppy or a bootable cd with dos and a network stack in order to load an image for the machine from the network.
Marak