Re: [colorforth] Booting from HDD

[Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

It works in VESA modes 114 and 117 on a Jetway J7F4 (7F4K1G2E-PB) board 
with VIA Eden 1.2 GHz processor, booting from a USB floppy drive.

Thank you _very_ much!
Jason

John Comeau said the following on 13/03/2008 11:50:
> Hi Jason, I think my last release on sourceforge will boot from USB
> but I don't have a jump drive to test it with. It ought to work
> because it uses BIOS calls, and I think a USB boot will come up as the
> "A" drive, but who knows what I might have overlooked...
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Mornin' all,
> >
> > Has anyone made a version of colorForth available that boots from HDD or
> > from a USB flash drive?  I've seen the IDE driver on colorForth.com and
> > the USB code on CF05, but I think these are cases of still booting  from
> > floppy.  I'm just wondering if someone has changed the boot/kernel code
> > already.
> >
> > My laptop is now becoming unreliable by rebooting itself every now and
> > then and frequently refusing to read floppies.  I have another PC to try
> > but it doesn't even have a floppy interface...  I know--I really should
> > just go and find another old PC with a floppy and try that instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
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