Re: 64 bit Menuet 0.59 released

"Wolfgang Kern" stated...
: You need one working environment as 'the tool' which allow to
: test new OS code parts immediate (without frequent reboot).
:
: My problem would be that my current OS know only keyboard,
: mouse and old modems on USB. These RAM-Sticks are all a
: bit different and only M$ may have enough hardware information
: to support most of it.

XPSP2 driver for both USB sticks (two different models, one a
256MB SanDisk, the other an unknown name brand) ...

%systemroot%\system32\drivers\VolSnap.sys
08/03/2004 10:00 PM 52,352 volsnap.sys

I do not think either one of mine are bootable... but perhaps
the drivers only need to get installed into the BIOS on the
mainboard?

: So when the new OS boots from USB it must already contain
: working USB loader/drivers/routines as the BIOS is of little help
: here.

USB network cards should be bootable as well, right? Back in
1998 or 1999 Intel promoted bootable PCI network interfaces.
One Microsoft / Intel event I attended demonstrated a NIC that
booted off a remote server, and the OS sent commands back
and forth between the driveless client and ran some of the new
terminals on the client, off the server (Terminal Server).

Then the other way I see it working, bootable USB memory retains
a BIOS, like the bootable network cards, and respond as disk
drives, just as a hard disk would. If it acts like a disk drive, it is a
disk drive and PCI is only the funnel that moves information about.

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Create_a_bootable_USB_disk_with_DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Damn_Small_Machine
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html

And the following link looks like pretty good reading.
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Microsoft talks about bootable USB-CDs and USB-Flash Drives
(UFDs)...
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx

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Jim Carlock
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