Osprey, I apologize for jumping in without all the facts - bad habit of mine. So more thoroughly checked and using first F12 to display boot devices and see:
SATA - My Hard Drive, CD/DVD My Optical, USB My External, Diagnostics and Boot to Utility Partition so I do have the choice (I do not have a Diskette Drive and have no idea what a Modular Bay HDD is)
Now my Setup (CMOS) shows the following under Boot Device Configuration: 1st Removable Dev. 2nd CD/DVD and 3rd SATA
May I interpret Setup to therefore placing my Removable Dev. (which I now assume is my external attached via USB) 1st in the book sequence right now and because there is no bootable code on that partition it then checks the CD and finally the HDD.
So if I place an image of XP made with BartPE, for example, on that external which is listed as an Active Partition, it should boot Bart's XP code. I guess that means the image includes Boot.INI file as was used back with XP at the beginning of that code.
You are correct. USB could be either an external drive or a flash drive. Either of those should be bootable, provided you've got the boot loader set up correctly.
Osprey4, do appreciate your help and slowly beginning to understand a bit about the boot sequence. Understand I have been at this since I purchased the first IBM PC II for our company, in my other life when I was employed, now retired and for many years - but there are so many facets and I will never master but a few, if that .
Boot loader does not mean to much to me right now, what I think I know is that the BIOS (which displays the F12 screen) takes inventory and displays the drives available and then is directed by its Setup to a particular Active partition. Normally this is the C drive of the HD and there is looks at the MBR for further instructions. Now I believe that is where Boot.INI resides for an XP or older OS and I also assume that what MS provides with and OS and BartPE provides with an img file includes this information at the beginning of the partition and identifies the kernel loader program that starts the OS ---- am I close?
I fished the Jersey shore for many years and am familiar with the Osprey but not Osprey4. I Googled Osprey4 and came up with a page on the Dell site which of course I suspect you created the listing of tools below- with major concentration of CD's. Is this a Wikis. Embarrassing when you use to BBS before most people knew what a computer was and long before the Internet.
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February 6th, 2010 04:00
Hi, Ed:
In your manual, I see the following:
- Diskette Drive
- Internal HDD
- USB Storage Device
- CD/DVD/CD-RW drive
- Modular Bay HDD
Are you not seeing these options?Bitz106
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Osprey, I apologize for jumping in without all the facts - bad habit of mine. So more thoroughly checked and using first F12 to display boot devices and see:
SATA - My Hard Drive, CD/DVD My Optical, USB My External, Diagnostics and Boot to Utility Partition so I do have the choice (I do not have a Diskette Drive and have no idea what a Modular Bay HDD is)
Now my Setup (CMOS) shows the following under Boot Device Configuration: 1st Removable Dev. 2nd CD/DVD and 3rd SATA
May I interpret Setup to therefore placing my Removable Dev. (which I now assume is my external attached via USB) 1st in the book sequence right now and because there is no bootable code on that partition it then checks the CD and finally the HDD.
So if I place an image of XP made with BartPE, for example, on that external which is listed as an Active Partition, it should boot Bart's XP code. I guess that means the image includes Boot.INI file as was used back with XP at the beginning of that code.
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February 6th, 2010 13:00
You are correct. USB could be either an external drive or a flash drive. Either of those should be bootable, provided you've got the boot loader set up correctly.
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February 6th, 2010 15:00
Osprey4, do appreciate your help and slowly beginning to understand a bit about the boot sequence. Understand I have been at this since I purchased the first IBM PC II for our company, in my other life when I was employed, now retired and for many years - but there are so many facets and I will never master but a few, if that .
Boot loader does not mean to much to me right now, what I think I know is that the BIOS (which displays the F12 screen) takes inventory and displays the drives available and then is directed by its Setup to a particular Active partition. Normally this is the C drive of the HD and there is looks at the MBR for further instructions. Now I believe that is where Boot.INI resides for an XP or older OS and I also assume that what MS provides with and OS and BartPE provides with an img file includes this information at the beginning of the partition and identifies the kernel loader program that starts the OS ---- am I close?
I fished the Jersey shore for many years and am familiar with the Osprey but not Osprey4. I Googled Osprey4 and came up with a page on the Dell site which of course I suspect you created the listing of tools below- with major concentration of CD's. Is this a Wikis. Embarrassing when you use to BBS before most people knew what a computer was and long before the Internet.
Ed
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February 7th, 2010 04:00
Yes, that's my Wiki, which I use to help with optical drive issues.
Again, with a proper MBR, any external drive should be bootable.